A 53-year-old Ocala woman ended up behind bars Monday after a nasty tangle with the 17-year-old father of her great-grandchild.

Ocala Police officers were called to a residence on SE 20th Court in the Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park for a domestic altercation and when they arrived, they were told the fight was over a cell phone that belonged to one of the five grandchildren living at the residence.

Carol J. Rice said she had been in possession of the phone and either her great-grandchild’s father or her the mother of the child, her 17-year-old granddaughter, had snatched it from her. The father said he and the great-grandchild’s mother had an appointment that required documents about the child, which they believed Rice had. He said they refused to return the phone until she provided them with the documents, the report says.

Two witnesses reported that the child’s father was “disrespectful” to Rice but didn’t put his hands on her. A 9-year-old granddaughter, however, said she saw the father push Rice away from him, the report says.

All of the witnesses reported seeing Rice, who has long fingernails, step in front of the father and scratch him on the neck. She admitted that she was angry but said it wasn’t her intent to scratch the father, who had multiple marks of various lengths across the left front of his neck, the report says.

Rice was arrested and transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with domestic battery. She is being held on no bond and is due in court Feb. 18 at 8:30 a.m. to answer the charge.