Schuman Is Accused Of Attacking Child E-Biker In Boca Raton’s Lotus Community.
BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher | BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Just two days after BocaNewsNow.com reported on the appearance of prosecutorial favoritism in the child battery e-bike case involving Mitchell Schuman, the Boca Raton resident and Lotus homeowner is now facing four charges that carry a theoretical penalty of four years in jail.
Filed late Friday, Schuman, 62, is now charged with two counts of battery, one count of petit theft, and one count of criminal mischief. BocaNewsNow.com has learned that more charges may be pending. While extremely unlikely that Schuman — or anyone — would be sentenced to four years for a series of misdemeanors, the total based on Florida Statutes is four years and two months.
As BocaNewsNow.com reported on Wednedsay, several people also charged with battery in Palm Beach County on April 3rd — the day of Schuman’s incident — were jailed and have already appeared before a judge. Schuman has not seen a judge and has been living freely. Most of those arrested on April 3rd do not live in million dollars homes or work as a legal professional. Schuman, however, does live in a community of million dollar homes and is a legal professional. He was never booked or cuffed — just given a notice to appear. Then prosecutors took what seemed to be an extremely long period of time to file charges — not the case for the other, unrelated people charged with battery in poorer parts of the county.
Whether intentional or not, the appearance that Schuman was receiving special treatment was optically strong. Multiple sources within the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said their deputies did what they were supposed to do, but questioned why prosecutors were taking so long to move forward with charges that detectives and the State Attorney’s Office apparently agreed to.
Schuman is accused of throwing a water bottle at a child performing wheelies on an e-bike in the G.L. Homes community of Lotus — where both Schuman and the child live. Schuman then allegedly took the child’s cell phone and wouldn’t return it — denying the child the ability to call police or his parents. A group of adults came to the scene and helped Schuman block the boy from his phone. At least one of the adults physically restrained the child. Much of this was captured on video, below. BocaNewsNow.com has learned that charges could still be filed against the other adults. As we previously reported, this wasn’t Schuman’s first go-round with the child. We published a series of text messages where Schuman appeared to say he had taken, or tried to take, the boy’s phone back in December.
Schuman is a “claimant representative” for a New York law firm — at least he was in the years prior to this incident. The firm stripped Schuman’s face and biography from its website after we reported on the initial event. What did appear on the website is below. Schuman is now set to be arraigned next month. He remains free.
Great reporting!
Wow! I went a read all of the related text messages now, too. This Mitchell Schuman is the real punk. So are some, but not all, of his neighbors who texted him back on that conversation. By the way, he also seems to have very poor English language skills, especially for being a legal professional. The kid probably writes better.
I cannot believe these adults! They should all be arrested! I raised 3 sons. They certainly weren’t angels – far from it- but if anyone ever f’ed with my kids the way all of these adults did to this boy, I would have had them all arrested. I would be curious to see how any of them would react if their own children were man handled, shoved, and terrorized the same way. If I were that child’s parent(s), I would file civil suits on all of those so called adults- and I am not a “sue happy” person. Utterly disgusting behavior!