A KFC manager in Belleview was arrested after reportedly tossing a rock at a customer’s pickup vehicle during a dispute that spilled into the fast-food restaurant’s parking lot.
On Monday, April 13, a Belleview Police Department officer was summoned to the KFC at 5120 SE Abshier Boulevard in Belleview in response to a verbal argument. Upon arrival, the officer spoke with a manager, identified as Ocala resident Jacob Charles Lancaster, who informed him that a male client was “not happy with the wait time for the food,” according to the arrest report.
Lancaster informed the officer that the client or victim “yelled at staff members.” When the victim began to leave the fast-food eatery, he allegedly called Lancaster a racist epithet.
In response, Lancaster stated that he followed the victim into the parking lot, where they “continued exchanging words.” Lancaster apparently hurled a rock at the victim’s truck as he drove away, with the driver’s side window rolled down.
According to the victim’s account, he admitted to shouting at employees and called Lancaster a racist slur. When the victim tried to exit the parking lot, he said that Lancaster “ran toward his truck and threw a chunk of broken asphalt at his head but missed and struck the truck.”
The victim reported that the incident occurred near the restaurant’s drive-through menu.
According to the report, the victim’s truck had “approximately the size of a quarter” damage below the driver’s side door handle that “appeared to have been caused by an object striking the vehicle with a sharp edge.”
The victim’s truck was reported to have sustained $500 in damage.
On Tuesday, April 14, the officer returned to the KFC to study video security evidence from the incident. The report states that Lancaster allegedly threw an object at the victim’s pickup truck when it stopped near the drive-through menu.
Lancaster apparently stepped away from the camera, and the victim drove away.
After analyzing the film, the officer confronted Lancaster inside the KFC and arrested him. Lancaster was subsequently booked into Marion County Jail and released two days later after paying bond.
According to jail records, Lancaster is charged with firing a dangerous projectile at a vehicle and criminal mischief (more than $1,000). He is set to appear in a Marion County courthouse at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19.
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