DESTIN - A 50-year-old man has been arrested for choking a woman and then threatening her with a knife and BB gun, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Stephen Anthony Parodi of Destin choked the victim before holding a black gun to her head and threatening to kill her Dec. 28, according to a Sheriff’s Office report. The gun was later determined to be a BB gun.
Parodi then held a large kitchen knife to the victim’s throat and told her he would cut her throat, according to his arrest report.
The woman had a protective injunction barring Parodi from having violent contact with her.
Parodi was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, felony battery by strangulation and violation of an injunction. He was in the Okaloosa County Jail on Wednesday on $150,000 bond.