He was already under arrest for one crime, and is now facing more charges.
Sheriff’s officials said 48 year old Mark Walton of Battalla Road in North Port was in the Sarasota County Jail yesterday morning on more than half a million dollars bond charged with battery and now faces sexual battery with a weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery charges. Police arrested Walton on the assault and battery charges after a disturbance at his own home on October 9. The sexual battery charges were added when police got another complaint of assaulting a woman as he threatened her with a weapon.