Okaloosa Island restaurant returning to normal after being trashed by irate man (ARREST REPORT)

OKALOOSA ISLAND — Five days after a deranged-acting man broke into Pranzo Italian Ristorante, assaulting the staff and wrecking the dining area, the restaurant is returning to normal.

New windows have been installed, shattered glass has been picked up and broken tables, chairs and bar stools have been either repaired or replaced.

But a closer look shows some leftover scars from Saturday’s strange incident. Wine still stains the outside walls from the dozens of bottles that were thrown through windows and sheetrock and at Pranzo’s staff and Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies.

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“There’s definitely some more work to do,” said Ryan Montalto, owner and manager of Pranzo’s. “It looked like a hurricane came through.”

According to the Sheriff’s Office arrest report, the incident started when Bryan H. Case, 43, of Lampe, Mo., showed up and asked the restaurant’s staff for a set of jumper cables. Case became aggressive and pushed Montalto after he was told they didn’t have jumper cables, but he did leave when he was told too.

However, Case returned about a half hour later and kicked in the restaurant’s glass door and punched an employee and broke his jaw. Montalto said he temporarily subdued Case, but Case became irate when he saw the staff calling the authorities. He then started grabbing wine bottles and throwing them at the staff and through all of the restaurant’s windows.

Case continued to throw bottles at a deputy who arrived at the scene, but he eventually gave up after deputies threatened to use a Taser on him.

Case was arrested on three counts of battery, one count of assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of resisting arrest without violence, one count of property damage from criminal mischief and one count of burglary with assault.

By the end of his rampage, Montalto said Case had thrown about 60 wine bottles.

“There was no rhyme or reason, there was no collective thought to it,” Montalto said. “My door just happened to be open that first time.”

Even with the amount of damage sustained, Montalto estimated the total would be about $100,000 worth, the restaurant was able to open that evening by seating customers in the restaurant’s private dining room that was not damaged.

By late Monday morning, Fort Walton Beach Glass was able to replace all of the broken windows. The main dining room was cleaned up, repaired and reopened to customers.

“My parents own Pandora’s and I’ve been in and out of a restaurant for all 33 years of my life, this is by far absolutely the weirdest thing I’ve ever had happen,” Montalto said. “This is something that you find at a pool tavern in the middle of nowhere, late at night, not at 2 or 3 in the afternoon.”