Florida mom charged with machete threat

FORT PIERCE, Fla., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida woman threatened her teenage son with a machete, say police who charged her with assault.

Melbourne Jocelyn, 48, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after this week's encounter at the family's Fort Pierce home.

According to TCPalm, Jocelyn allegedly held the weapon to the 16-year-old's face and threatened to cut him in a dispute over house work.

The youth locked himself and his 17-year-old brother in a bedroom and called police.

Jocelyn told police she was, indeed, holding a machete during the argument, but had been doing yard work and had not threatened her son.