Charlotte County Sheriff's deputies arrested Stephan Leslie Flinders, 56, a homeless Port Charlotte man, who threw a 12-inch ceramic flower pot through a glass window, injuring a man in a wheelchair inside the home, according to a news release from the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office.

A neighbor who had called 911 on Saturday morning reported she saw a man in the carport yell at someone in a house and break a window with a flower pot before fleeing on a bicycle.

The resident, 41, a man in a wheelchair, told deputies that Flinders, 56, had come to his home and he had opened his window to talk to him, the report stated.

The resident also told deputies that Flinders had then demanded that he give him disability checks belonging to his girlfriend. The man told Flinders that he did not have any such checks and closed the window, according to the record.

That's when Flinders allegedly used his fist to smash one of the window panes before picking up a 12-inch ceramic flower pot and throwing it through the window, according to the release.

Although the pot missed the man, flying pieces of its glass caused small lacerations to his left knee, the report stated.

When deputies caught up with Flinders after issuing a BOLO alert, they charged him with Throwing a Deadly Missile into a Dwelling, and Battery.

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