Monday, May 11, 2009

Officer Intervenes In Street Attack

   A Lawrenceburg Police Officer who intervened in an attack on a city street Saturday evening ended up arresting one of the men involved.

   Reports show that the incident occurred shortly before 6:00 p.m. near the First Street, North Locust Avenue intersection.

   The officer reports that he inside his unit near the intersection when he saw two male subjects pushing bicycles along the opposite side of First Street. Suddenly, the officer reports, a man ran across First Street and struck one of the subjects in the face, knocking him to the ground. The officer noted that it appeared the attack had been unprompted.

   The officer reports he quickly activated his emergency equipment and crossed over to the subjects in order to intervene. The victim, a thirty-one-year-old victim of Lawrenceburg’s College Street, told the officer that he had sustained only a glancing blow and had not been injured.

   When he questioned the suspect about the attack, he allegedly told officers that the man “owed his brother money and refuses to pay.” He told officers that he had noticed the man and jumped out of the car in which he was traveling in order to confront him.

   Officers questioned whether the aggressor had any contraband or weapons about his person. He stated that he had marijuana in one pocket. Officers seized approximately 2 grams of marijuana from the man along with a small pipe used to smoke the substance.

   As a result the suspect, Trent Don Davis, 22, of 317 Nixon Avenue, Lawrenceburg, was placed under arrest on charges that include assault, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, and was transported to the Lawrence County Jail. Davis is slated to answer the charges through Lawrence County General Sessions Court on Thursday, June 4, 2009.