(CNN) --
George Zimmerman was charged Monday with felony aggravated assault after
allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend, according to Dennis Lemma,
chief deputy with the Seminole County, Florida, Sheriff's Office.
Zimmerman, who was acquitted earlier this year of
murdering teenager Trayvon Martin, was arrested after the incident at the home
of Samantha Scheibe, Lemma said. He also was charged with two misdemeanors --
domestic violence battery and criminal mischief -- in connection with the same
incident, Lemma said.
Zimmerman is being held in jail without bail and will
make his first appearance in front of a judge Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. ET.
Differing 911 calls
According to a police report on the incident, Scheibe
said that after an argument Zimmerman broke a table with a shotgun then pointed
it at her "for a minute."
Scheibe called 911 at 12:30 E.T., Lemma said.
On a 911 call recording released by police, a woman
can be heard telling authorities: "He's inside my house breaking all my
(things) because I asked him to leave."
The woman then says to someone at the house, "I'm
doing this again? You just broke my glass table. You just broke my sunglasses
and you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the (expletive)
out."
A man is heard telling her to calm down, but then she
tells the dispatcher that the man just pushed her out of the house and locked
the door.
On a separate 911 call, a man calls to report that his
girlfriend was "for lack of a better term, going crazy on me" and
throwing his things out. The caller says the woman is outside with police.
When asked why he is calling, the man says, "I
just want everyone to know the truth."
He says he never pulled a firearm and that it is in a
bag, locked. He claims she was the one who broke the table.
When deputies arrived at the house, Scheibe gave them
a key. When they pushed open the door -- which was blocked by several small
pieces of furniture -- they found Zimmerman, who was sitting and unarmed, Lemma
said. He was passive and cooperative, Lemma said.
The sheriff's office was seeking a search warrant to
look for two guns deputies believed were inside the home, he said. According to
the police report, Zimmerman had locked up the guns before police arrived.
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