Man arrested in sledgehammer handle attack

A 44-year-old Marathon man who attacked another man with a sledgehammer handle was arrested Saturday night.

Ramon Cruz-Vazquez was charged with aggravated battery causing injury.

The Sheriff’s Office was called to Trailerama trailer park on 15th Street at 7 p.m. where Deputy Orey Swilley found the victim bleeding from the forehead. The victim said he was trying to get Cruz-Vasquez to tell him who robbed him in a previous incident about two months ago. He said Cruz-Vasquez became upset  and retrieved a sledgehammer handle. Ramon Cruz-Vazquez began punching and hitting the victim with the handle.

The victim was taken to Fishermen’s Hospital and then flown to Miami with head injuries.

Deputy Corbin Hradecky found Cruz-Vazquez elsewhere on the trailer park property where he was arrested.

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