A Florida resort security guard was pinned between two vehicles after a Wisconsin Airbnb renter allegedly turned an ID check into a violent gatehouse confrontation.
Tayquanna Butler, 32, of Green Bay, is accused of driving into the Windsor Island Resort guard after refusing to show identification at the Davenport property on July 4, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
The confrontation began at the resort’s entry gate on Aloha Boulevard, where the driver of a gray Chrysler Pacifica was told she either needed to be listed as an approved visitor or provide ID before entering the property.
Butler had a female passenger in the vehicle, officials said.
Rather than hand over identification, the driver allegedly challenged the guard.
“What are you going to do if I drive through?” she asked, according to officials.
The answer from the gate was that it would not be a good idea. She drove through anyway.
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The Chrysler sped past the entry gates and continued onto Lana Avenue, prompting the security guard to follow in his patrol vehicle, the sheriff’s office said.
When the guard caught up to her, he asked again for identification and told her to register the vehicle as a resort visitor.
Butler allegedly answered that he was “doing too much” and said she was renting an Airbnb at the resort.
The exchange then turned from a rules dispute into an alleged assault.
As the guard stood beside his patrol car, the woman allegedly asked him twice, “You wanna get hit?”
Then, officials said, she drove into him. The impact pinned the guard between the passenger side of Butler’s vehicle and the driver’s side of his patrol car, injuring him, damaging equipment on his belt and leaving the patrol car damaged.
The sheriff’s office said the guard’s injuries were not serious.
The suspect did not stay at the scene. Officials said she fled at a high rate of speed after hitting the guard.
Detectives later identified Butler as the suspect and confirmed she had been listed as a renter at the resort through July 6, according to officials.
An arrest warrant followed, charging Butler with aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A criminal-record check also showed prior Wisconsin arrests for disorderly conduct and domestic abuse, officials said.
Detectives then turned to her travel plans. After contacting the Orlando International Airport Police Department, they confirmed Butler was scheduled to fly back to Wisconsin on July 7.
The airport became the end of the line. When Butler arrived for check-in, she was detained, officials said.
Polk County Jail records showed Butler remained locked up Monday morning on a total bond of $25,000 for both felony charges.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd framed the case as a simple resort rule that became two felony charges.
“You’re not going to come into Polk County and act the way you do back home, disobeying not just the laws of decorum but the laws of our state,” Judd said.
“All this woman had to do was show some ID and register her car at the resort where she was staying. Now she’s facing two felonies and is locked up in jail.”
Another Polk County case in early July involved an ambulance, an injured paramedic and a driver deputies said left the crash scene.
The sheriff’s office said the ambulance was traveling north on Harden Boulevard when a Volkswagen Jetta made a U-turn in front of it, WFLA-TV reported.
After the turn, officials said, the Jetta moved into the ambulance’s lane.
“After completing the U-turn, the Jetta entered the lane occupied by the ambulance, and the vehicles collided,” the sheriff’s office said, according to WFLA.
The driver of the Jetta allegedly drove away after the crash.
A paramedic who had been in the back of the ambulance was taken to a hospital with a neck injury, the station reported.
Deputies traced the Jetta to a home and spoke with the car’s owner, who said her nephew had been behind the wheel.
Gregory McManus, 41, was found asleep on a couch, deputies told WFLA.
Once awakened, McManus admitted he had been involved in the crash but blamed the ambulance driver, according to Polk deputies.
“When deputies awakened him, he admitted that he had been involved in the crash, but claimed it was the ambulance driver’s fault,” Polk deputies said, according to the station.
Ambulance video undercut that version, according to the sheriff’s office, which said the footage “clearly showed that McManus had caused the crash.”
Judd accused McManus of causing the crash, fleeing and then trying to shift blame.
“Gregory McManus not only caused the crash, he fled from the scene without checking on anybody, and then had the audacity to claim the other driver was at fault,” Judd said.
“He was vulgar and rude to the deputy and had to be removed from the patrol car after he refused to get out of it. I doubt there is a responsible bone in his body.”
McManus was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash with injury, WFLA reported.
In New Jersey, prosecutors recently moved an 18-year-old into adult court after an alleged double-fatal crash involving two teenage girls on electric bikes.
Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, both 17, were riding in Cranford on Sept. 29, 2025, when Vincent Battiloro allegedly hit them with his vehicle.
Battiloro, now 18, was charged with murder as an adult on Friday, June 26.
One day after the crash, Battiloro appeared on a YouTube video-game livestream and bragged about the attention he was receiving from comments about the killings, according to WFIN.
“The more you guys engage in the chat, the more you give me engagement and I get paid for YouTube. Just letting you all know. That’s fine. Y’all are just giving me engagement, that’s fine,” Battiloro said on stream according to WFIN.
“I’m not doing S— until people stop messaging negativity,” the alleged murderer concluded.
Police said Battiloro’s own dash camera showed him getting into a Jeep Compass that day and driving near Burnside Avenue in Cranford, close to one victim’s home.
After he parked, police said, the two girls were seen riding electric bikes in the opposite direction.
Detectives said Battiloro then made a U-turn, followed the victims and accelerated the Jeep before both girls were struck at a high rate of speed.
Officials said the vehicle eventually stopped and Battiloro fled the scene on foot.
