By Andy Boyle, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG – A woman who made a sexual advance on an acquaintance outside a liquor store stabbed the man with scissors after he rebuffed her, police said.
Denise Vanistella Williams, 50, apparently didn't like being turned down by a man at a liquor store, according to police.
She was in the parking lot of the Dam New York Liquor Store, 1443 16th St. S, at about 2 a.m. Tuesday. An acquaintance who also frequently shops at the store was there, too.
Williams made sexual advances toward the acquaintance. He refused. She then stabbed the man with a small blue-handled scissors, giving him a six inch cut to his left arm, police said.
She was arrested a short time later and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Williams remained in Pinellas County Jail Tuesday morning in lieu of $10,000 bail.