"Weird" Couple Busted After Fight Over Sex Partners

AUGUST 21--A Florida couple described as having a “’weird’” relationship was arrested Sunday and charged with domestic battery after a deputy responding to a report of a disturbance at their home found them fighting while intoxicated and naked.

According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office affidavit, Deputy Cari Smith found Tina Norris, 39, crying and alleging that she found her live-in boyfriend of five years, James Barfield, “having sex with another female in the house.” She also claimed that he “punched her in her mouth for no reason.”

Norris was asked several times by the officer to put her clothes on, but she refused.

The investigator then spoke to Barfield, 56, who was also naked and “extremely intoxicated.” He claimed that the couple got in a verbal argument because Norris “was found in bed with two other men.”

Melissa Fugate, a third person in the house who the report notes was clothed, told the cop she was sleeping “alone” in a spare room when she heard yelling and screaming. She described the squabbling couple as “equally aggressive to each other and involved in mutual physical altercation.” Fugate also stated that Norris claimed to have “found James in bed with another woman and James stated that he found (Norris) in bed with two other men,” adding that “they had a ‘weird’ relationship.”

Deputy Smith noted that the three other “sexual partners…had left prior to law enforcement arrival and there identities were not provided.”

Norris, who had blood on her lip, and Barfield, who had scratches on his neck and lower back, were booked into the county jail, where they posed for the above mug shots. They are both scheduled for arraignment in Circuit Court on September 11. (1 page)