BY: 24/7 CRIME DESK | BocaNewsNow.com
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2023 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A 65-year-old Delray Beach man is facing a charge of “battery on the elderly” after he allegedly chest bumped a man trying to enter a theater at the “Movies Of Delray” movie theater at 7421 Atlantic Avenue.
According to an inexplicably heavily redacted arrest report obtained by BocaNewsNow.com, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office was called to the movie theater around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday after witnesses watched the dispute. According to those speaking with police, a man had left the theater while a movie was playing, then returned. But when that patron tried to re-enter the theater, Kenneth Schwartz of Bal Moral Lane in Delray Beach allegedly tried to stop him.
“(Schwartz) stated that the movie was still going on and (the other man) could not enter. (Schwartz) then pushed him in the chest by using his chest.”
It’s unclear what movie was showing at the time of the incident. The theater is currently showing Golda, Oppenheimer, the right-wing conspiracy theory movie Sound of Freedom, Tiger Within, Between Two Worlds, and the Miracle Club.
Kenneth Schwartz was arrested and charged with battery on the elderly, with the deputy writing: “After completing my investigation, I concluded that (Schwartz) committed the crime of Battery on elderly 65 years, due to the statements made by (witnesses) and also meeting the elements of the crime by committing an assault or aggravated assault or a battery or aggravated battery upon a person 65 years of age or older, regardless of whether he or she knows or has reason to know the age of the victim.”
Schwartz was booked into jail on Sunday afternoon and released nearly a full day later on his own recognizance. A court date will be set.
