Panama City Beach police arrested 25-year-old Allie Grace Barrentine from Alabama on charges including two counts of battery against women over 65 after an altercation in a Walmart parking lot. The incident occurred Monday night when Barrentine allegedly punched a vehicle and assaulted the occupants while intoxicated. She resisted arrest and tampered with restraints, police said.
Panama City Beach Police Department responded to a Walmart Supercenter parking lot on Panama City Beach Parkway around 7:40 p.m. Monday after reports of an altercation. According to a criminal complaint, Allie Grace Barrentine, 25, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was walking through the lot when a vehicle approached in the same lane. Police allege she punched the vehicle, prompting the occupants—two women approximately 69 and 65 years old—to exit. Barrentine then grabbed the first victim's left arm, breaking a bracelet, and pulled her by the necklace. For the second victim, she grabbed the throat, causing visible redness, scratched the orbital area, and punched the left eye with a closed fist, leaving a raised mark, the complaint states. Officers arrived around 8 p.m. and noted Barrentine had a strong odor of alcohol on her breath, was unsteady on her feet, slurring her speech, and admitted to consuming alcohol and cannabis. At 8:05 p.m., she resisted arrest by becoming argumentative, pulling away multiple times, and slipping out of flex cuffs twice—once during cuffing and again after being placed in a patrol vehicle, requiring different restraints. Barrentine faces two counts of battery on a person 65 or older, plus resisting an officer without violence and disorderly conduct. She was held in Bay County Jail on a $21,000 bond but is no longer listed as an inmate there. Her first arraignment is scheduled for April 20.