Woman arrested for assaulting her father with mouthwash

A woman has been arrested for allegedly dousing her 70-year-old father with a bottle of Cool Mint Listerine during an argument at the home they share in St. Petersburg, Florida.



According to police, Elaine Robinson, 47, became “agitated” as she quarrelled on Wednesday afternoon with her father Marvin. At one point, Robinson retrieved a “one litre bottle of Listerine Cool Mint and splashed” the mouthwash all over her father’s face.

The incident, officers noted, was observed by an independent witness. The elder Robinson was not injured in the mouthwash attack. Robinson was arrested for misdemeanor domestic battery and booked into the Pinellas County jail, where she is locked up in lieu of $5,000 bond.



While a police report notes that Robinson does not have any prior battery convictions, her previous convictions include voluntary manslaughter, for which she served seven years in prison. Robinson, who has been in and out of state prison over the past 25 years, has also been convicted of grand theft, cocaine sales, possession of stolen property, and disorderly intoxication.