Foot Model Selling ‘Stinky Old’ Sneakers Allegedly Run Over by Client When She Didn’t Let Him Smell Her Feet

A Florida man was arrested after a woman he met on a dating app alleges he ran her over when she declined to let him smell her feet.

Elmoncy Sercle was arrested after briefly fleeing the Aventura, Fla. hotel where he is accused of attacking ao woman he met on Seeking.com, according to an arrest affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE.

The woman, a foot model, told police that the two had agreed to meet at the hotel for the first time on Aug. 24.

Once in his hotel room, Sercle asked to smell her feet and buy her used sneakers, the affidavit states.

“When I got there, he just wanted to sniff my feet and I didn’t feel comfortable with that,” the woman told Local 10.

“I mean, you could have my sneakers all you want,” she added, “and you know, they’re just stinky old sneakers. But people like weird things.”

She told Sercle it would cost him $1,000, and that her sneakers were in her car.

When she went to use the bathroom, Sercle, 28, rushed out of the room and she chased after him, thinking he had stolen from her, she told police.

She found him in the parking garage, where he drove past her in a red SUV, before allegedly turning the car and running her over, according to investigators.

She suffered road rash and bruising across her arms and chest.

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Sercle allegedly fled the scene but was arrested on Aug. 28 after he tried to book a room at the same hotel, the affidavit states.

Police say he has been linked to other incidents which mirror a similar method of attack, but online records did not indicate charges related to those.

He has been charged with aggravated battery in connection with the incident and has pleaded not guilty, according to online court records.