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NAPLES — To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.

Collier sheriff

Road rage incident leads to arrest

A 25-year-old man was arrested early Friday after a woman told deputies she and her two daughters were attacked in their car during a road rage incident at an East Naples intersection Thursday evening.

Morilien Desir, 2626 Fountain View Circle, North Naples, was charged with burglary with battery.

Maga Herrera, 37, told deputies she and her daughters, ages 12 and 14, were driving to church shortly before 7 p.m. when a white Taurus passed her at a high rate of speed as they approached the intersection of Davis Boulevard and Radio Road, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office reported.

After the Taurus passed them, a woman sitting in the front passenger seat made an obscene gesture at Herrera and her daughters, reports said. The Taurus, which was in front of Herrera’s car, suddenly stopped at a red light, causing Herrera to brake abruptly.

The driver of the Taurus, Desir, got out of the car and approached Herrera, yelling and cursing at her. He reached into her car, put his hand around her throat and began choking her, deputies said.

The female passenger, who was not identified in sheriff’s reports, got out of the Taurus, reached into Herrera’s car and started punching the 14-year-old, who was sitting in the front passenger seat. The 12-year-old, who was sitting in the back seat, told deputies she was too scared to do anything while her mother and sister were being battered.

Desir and the woman drove away, but Herrera was able to get the license plate on the Taurus, reports said.

Further investigation by deputies revealed the Taurus was registered to Desir. Desir also matched the description Herrera and her daughters gave deputies of the man who attacked them.

Deputies located Desir, who was driving his Taurus, shortly after 2 a.m. at the intersection of Whippoorwill Lane and Pine Ridge Road in North Naples, reports said.

Battery arrest

Robert Brian Johnson, 43, of 1070 Albany Court, East Naples, was arrested Thursday at home. He was charged with grabbing and squeezing the arm of George Lancos and shaking him after Lancos questioned Johnson about cleaning up his dog’s mess.

DUI arrest

Brian John Tironi, 30, of Boonton, NJ, was arrested Thursday at 975 Pine Ridge Road.

Naples police

Domestic violence arrest

Douglas Stuart Sampson, 43, of 2728 Crayton Road, Naples, was arrested Thursday at home. He was charged with holding his mother, Margaret Hull, preventing her from leaving her home, and breaking her cell phone.

DUI arrest

Alisha Nichole Velasco, 21, of Fort Myers, was arrested Thursday at 777 U.S. 41 N.

Police Beat is compiled and written by the Naples Daily News staff from oral and written reports by Naples police, Collier Sheriff‘s Office, Marco police and other agencies. Arrests indicate suspicion of crime, not guilt.