Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Domestics, Assaults Investigated During Holiday Weekend

   Local law enforcement officials were kept busy during the extended holiday weekend, often called upon to intervene in instances of assault or domestic altercations.

   *One such incident was investigated Friday at 80 West Edan Road, Ethridge. The victim, age 37, reported to Lawrence County Sheriff’s Deputies that she and her boyfriend had been involved in altercation during which he choked her and threw a remote control through the television, breaking it. Deputies noted that the victim had red marks around her neck and that the TV was, indeed broken. As a result Michael Elmer Allen, 37, was placed under arrest on charges of domestic assault and transported to the Lawrence County Jail. He is slated to answer the charges through Lawrence County General Sessions Court on June 2.

   *On Monday, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to intervene in an altercation between a woman and her mother-in-law. The victim, age 26, told deputies that the woman, age 48, had come to her house. When they began arguing, the victim said she picked up her three-day-old son and shut herself in her bedroom. The mother-in-law allegedly began kicking the door repeatedly. When she stopped the victim said she opened the door to find that she was pushing her five-year-old daughter in the hallway, causing the child to strike her head. Witnesses supported the statement, indicating that the woman then left with the baby’s car seat, crib set, and clothing. As a result warrants were issued, charging Kerri P. Torrey with the crimes of domestic assault and theft.

   *Deputies were dispatched to 32 Johnson Drive, Loretto, Saturday afternoon where the resident reported a neighbor had attempted to run over her son with an automobile. Deputies were told that the neighbor had forced the fourteen-year-old to dive through a barbed wire fence. The woman allegedly cursed the boy and made threatening statements toward him before driving away. The matter remains under investigation.

   *Around 4:20 Friday afternoon deputies made their way to a home on Ridge Lane where they intervened in a fight that allegedly involved a rock and scissors. Both men told deputies that they had exchanged heated words as they headed outside. One, however, told deputies the second man had picked up a rock and struck him in the back, sparking a fight between them. The second man told deputies that he had only struck the man with the rock in self-defense. He claimed that the first man had stabbed him with a pair of scissors prior to the beginning of the fight. Investigators have been tasked with sorting out the details of the incident.

   *Sunday, officers with the Lawrenceburg Police Department were summoned to 267 Cocke Street where a resident claimed another man had struck him in the head while holding a beer bottle. The victim told officers that the neighbor had come to his home in an intoxicated state and that he began to curse at him, as well as at young children who were playing outside. The victim reported that the man swung his fist at him while holding the bottle, striking him in the side of the head. He reported that the man’s girlfriend then “got him and drug him back to their residence.” Several witnesses gave statements regarding the incident. Officers reported they were unable to locate the suspect at the time reports were filed.

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