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A 30-year-old Marco Island man who poured mustard on an ex-girlfriend at a local night club on New Year’s morning and then violated a restraining order weeks later was tossed in jail.

Circuit Judge Fred Hardt last week granted Assistant State Attorney Rob Denny’s motion to revoke Michael Christian Adcox’s $20,000 bond, after hearing the victim and a male friend detail the early morning mustard attack at Bombay Club and the restraining order violation in early February.

Adcox, 214 Grapewood Circle, kept trying to interrupt during the hearing and had to be hushed by defense attorney Donald Day, who apologized to Hardt and said he’d repeatedly tried to keep him quiet.

“Now who do you think will argue your case better, me or you?” Day asked his loud, unruly client, who then quieted down.

Even before the hearing began, Adcox had to be warned twice by bailiffs to keep quiet as he loudly talked with another man and pressed buttons on his cell phone, causing beeps.

Marco police arrested Adcox on Sept. 19 on two counts each of possessing and using someone else’s identification and uttering a forged instrument involving the use of another man’s credit card to run up $1,354.27 in bills at Wal-Mart and Circuit City for a television and PlayStation 3 on Sept. 1. Reports show he tried to use the card several more times, but it was declined. He had been free on bond since Sept. 21.

Police reports say Adcox blamed a female roommate for giving him the card and asking him to make purchases and sign the name of a Marco Island man, who owned the credit card.

During the hearing, Kerry Ann Fagan said she, Jeff Baier and other friends from work were sitting at a table at Bombay Club when Adcox walked up, poured the bottle all over her and then squirted about a half-dozen people around her. She said she practically had to take a bath in the restroom to remove it all. She admitted throwing a beer bottle at him afterward in anger.

“Did you do anything to provoke the pouring of the mustard?” Denny asked.

She said she’d done nothing.

When she called the Marco Island Police Department, she said they refused to take a report, saying no crime had been committed, so she went to the police station and filed a report. Then on Jan. 4, she sought a temporary order of protection against repeat domestic violence, and was granted a permanent order of protection by Hardt on Jan. 17.

But, she testified, Adcox violated that by driving past her home screaming loudly last weekend. She said she couldn’t understand what he was yelling. Baier also testified about the mustard attack, saying he’d been squirted as well.

Adcox wanted to testify, but Day took a break and warned him about the potential ramifications, so there were no defense witnesses.

Day stipulated to the facts of both events — that Adcox did squirt the mustard — and that his client had violated the order but urged Hardt not to revoke bond. Day said Adcox has serious medical issues and had been in two car accidents, nearly died, and still needs MRIs. But Hardt said the jail could take care of that.

“Make sure the sheriff knows about that, Mr. Day,” Hardt said.

Adcox was led out by bailiffs, still interrupting and asking Hardt to listen to him. Hardt told him to speak to Day in a conference room in the holding cell.

Records show Adcox was arrested in 2006 on two battery charges involving an incident at The Crazy Flamingo on Marco Island and pleaded to one count, but an adjudication of guilt was withheld. He was ordered to stay away from that bar.