'Wrapped around his throat': Man choked teen and threw his phone in a lake because he was walking through his backyard, cops say

A Florida man is accused of choking a teen walking done his backyard and snatching the boy's telephone earlier throwing it into a adjacent lake.

Kyle Riva, 70, has been charged with third-degree battery by strangulation and third-degree robbery by abrupt snatching — some felonies — and first-degree misdemeanor harm of spot betwixt $200 and $1,000, Seminole County tribunal records show. He made his archetypal quality successful tribunal connected Tuesday and is nary longer listed successful the Seminole County Jail.

On Monday astatine astir 7:10 p.m., a 12-year-old lad and a 13-year-old lad were walking done Riva's backyard connected Tigua Island Court successful Seminole County, Florida. The country is conscionable northeast of Orlando.

An apprehension study obtained by Law&Crime states that Riva's woman noticed the boys and exited her location and asked them to leave. The 13-year-old lad reportedly cursed astatine her, and she went backmost wrong and told her husband.

Riva emerged "angry," the tribunal papers states, and the 13-year-old "pulled retired his telephone and began to record" the man. Riva allegedly past "pushed" the lad "once adjacent the collar bone," but the teen continued recording.

The teens suggested it wasn't arsenic overmuch of a propulsion arsenic a choke. They stated that arsenic soon arsenic Riva walked into his backyard, helium approached the older lad "aggressively," prompting the teen to commencement signaling "because helium felt helium was successful danger." Riva reportedly past grabbed the 13-year-old "by the cervix and began to squeeze."

The suspect "then grabbed the phone" from the teen's hands "and threw it into Lake Antigua, which backs up to Kyle's backyard," according to the report.

After the incident, the teens returned to the older boy's house, wherever his begetter prompted them to telephone 911. Authorities accidental the injured lad had bruises connected his pharynx that "clearly amusement the impressions of fingers which had wrapped astir his throat."

The begetter past reportedly expressed his tendency to property charges.

Riva is expected to instrumentality to tribunal to beryllium arraigned connected Aug. 25.