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A Villager will not be prosecuted in an umbrella attack on her “bastard” husband.

The prosecutor’s office announced this past week in Sumter County Court that the case against 76-year-old Delores Kelley Dennis of the Village of Virginia Trace has been dropped.

Delores Dennis
Delores Dennis

Dennis was arrested Aug. 12 after her husband went to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office building at Pinellas Plaza and reported that his wife had threatened him with the pointy end of the umbrella during an argument which had raged for four days at their home. She had struck him with the umbrella on his left ear. Dennis had also been armed with a knife with a six-inch blade and had threatened to cut her husband’s ankles “so he couldn’t walk,” according to the arrest report. He had used his phone and iPad to record some of the chaos.

When deputies arrived at the couple’s home, Dennis said she had “no mental problems and was mentally aware.” The Georgia native also told deputies that her husband was “a bastard.”

However, things began to soften up in September and Dennis’ husband told a judge that he was no longer fearful of his wife and wanted her to come home. The judge granted the request.

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