A 7-Eleven customer used a banana to batter a store clerk, according to Florida police.
Caltaeviya Turner, 22, got into a “verbal altercation” with the 30-year-old female worker and the women exchanged “derogatory comments towards each other,” according to a police report.
At one point, Turner “became irate” and “picked up a banana from the cashier counter and threw the banana at the victim’s face.”
The airborne fruit struck the employee “on the cheek bone and left a minor abrasion,” investigators noted. The banana was not seized as evidence.
Seen at right, Turner was arrested Thursday for battery and booked into the county jail on the misdemeanor count. Police records list Turner’s employer as Baby Dolls, a Clearwater gentleman’s club located four miles from the 7-Eleven outlet.
Turner is being held without bond for violating probation in connection with a grand theft conviction in a neighboring county (Turner stole about $800 worth of merchandise from a Walmart store). Regarding that felony case, Turner has previously been cited for failing a pretrial intervention program, as well as for not performing 75 hours of community service or paying court fines.
Turner was also recently arrested for resisting and giving cops a false name when they responded to a trespass call at Baby Dolls. She was free on $1000 bond in that case when she was collared for the alleged banana battery.