After a month of living under the radar following his acquittal in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman has had multiple high-profile brushes with the law; in the most recent instance Zimmerman's mother-in-law, Machelle Dean, has filed a police report accusing Zimmerman of stealing furniture and a television from her home when he moved out of the home she owned, according to the Daily Mail.
Lake Mary police were called to the same home they responded to earlier in the month when Shellie Zimmerman made a 911 call over a domestic argument by Dean on Thursday. Police checked the house for signs of a break-in and found none. A press release from the police said that furniture and a television were reported as stolen from the home, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
George and Shellie Zimmerman had been leasing the house from Dean. Shellie appeared on NBC's the "Today" show Thursday and said that she had been unable to serve George with divorce papers because she was unaware of his whereabouts. Dean had ordered Zimmerman to vacate the house by Wednesday, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
"[Dean] has not yet produced the lease agreement to the Lake Mary Police Department and we have not yet confirmed ownership of the items that were alleged to have been removed," Zach Hudson, a spokesman for the Lake Mary Police Department, told the Orlando Sentinel. "This incident is being reviewed to determine if it will be a civil or criminal matter."
George Zimmerman has had multiple entanglements with the Lake Mary police within the last month. Near the beginning of September Zimmerman was pulled over and ticketed for speeding in the Florida town, a week later there was the domestic incident that police have yet to determine if they will press charges on.
After Shellie Zimmerman had stopped by to pick up some of her belongings George came home and allegedly punched his father-in-law in the nose and destroyed an iPad that Shellie had been recording video on. Police are still trying to extract the video from the device to see if there is a criminal case to be made.
In her interview with the "Today" show Shellie expressed regret that she didn't press charges against her estranged husband at the time of the incident.
"In hindsight I should have, and I really regret that, but I'm on probation and the officers made it very clear that day if I pressed charges we were all going to go to jail and I wouldn't been the only one to stay there," Zimmerman said.
