A Milton woman was arrested Tuesday for her alleged role in helping her Pensacola boyfriend tie up a neighbor with belts, rob him, beat him and spray him with Flex Seal — turning his face black.

Mary Hood, 25, of Milton, was booked into the Escambia County Jail on charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon, false imprisonment of an adult, larceny and battery.

Her boyfriend, Paul Dan Smith III, was arrested on Sept. 19, 2018, for his alleged part in the crimes.

According to an arrest report, an Escambia County Sheriff’s deputy met a man at Circle K on Gulf Beach Highway after the man contacted law enforcement on Sept. 7, 2018.

The deputy observed the man’s right eye was swollen and his face was cut, bruised and “appeared to have been spray-painted with black paint,” the report stated.

The man told the deputy that earlier that day, he and his brother had been inside his residence on Gulf Breeze Highway with another man whom he knew as “Smith,” the report stated. Smith wanted to purchase the man’s gold Motorola G4 cellphone, which he did not wish to sell.

The man told deputies that Smith appeared to be under the influence of narcotics, and so he suggested to Smith that they go to Smith’s nearby residence to talk about the cellphone there.

But once inside Smith’s residence, Smith grew angry and the man tried to leave, the report stated.

Smith allegedly told the man, “‘Don’t walk away from me when I am talking to you,’” and told his girlfriend, Hood, to go “get the gun,” the report stated.

The man admitted to throwing his drink at Smith, the report stated, and a fight ensued.

The man said Smith, along with Hood, disoriented him with pepper spray before holding him at gunpoint, tying his hands and feet with belts, beating him, spraying his face black with Flex Seal and leaving him, still bound, outside in a yard.

According to the report, the man’s brother said he heard a knock on the door and found Smith, who offered to trade the residence’s 32-inch, flat screen television for his tied-up brother.

The victim said he managed to cast off his ties, free himself and flee to the nearby Circle K where he called the Sheriff's Office, the report stated.

According to the victim, Hood was the one who brandished the Flex Seal can.

Smith and Hood were positively identified in a photo lineup. Smith was arrested shortly after, but Hood was not arrested until this week. They both had been on probation at the time of the alleged attack, so neither party were given bond. As of Friday, both Smith and Hood remained in jail.

Colin Warren-Hicks can be reached at colinwarrenhicks@pnj.com or 850-435-8680.