Police & Fire: Assaults and domestic violence
ASSAULTS: Battle Creek police have reported the following cases:
• Warrants are being sought for brothers, ages 17 and 19, after another man, 17, said they kicked in his apartment door and assaulted him. Officers were called to the first block of Stringham Road at 5:37 p.m. Tuesday and the victim said he saw the men drive into the apartment complex and shouted at them that he was going to call the police. He said they came to his apartment door, kicked it open and assaulted him. The victim said the men assaulted his sister, 18, about an hour earlier. The sister also was in the apartment and said she was punched when she tried to stop the assault on her brother. The men then fled.
• A warrant is being sought for a woman, 32, after officers said she threw a water bottle at a woman, 26, but hit the woman's five-month-old son. The victim said she pulled into a gas station in the 300 block of Capital Avenue Southwest when she saw the father of her child. But then the man's new girlfriend ran up yelling at the younger woman and threatening to kill her before throwing the bottle at the younger woman but hitting the child in the face. When police went to the suspect's home she refused to come outside but told officers through a window that nothing happened and denied she threw a bottle.
BREAK-IN & ASSAULT: Battle Creek police are seeking warrants for a Battle Creek man, 58, and Kalamazoo man, 28, after a break-in and fight at 4:51 a.m. Wednesday. Police said the older man, his roommate, a woman, 50, and the woman's nephew, were drinking when they began to argue. The older man told the others to leave his home but then choked the woman as she gathered her belongings and her nephew, who had gone outside, kicked open the door to the home to enter.
DOMESTIC ASSAULT: Battle Creek police have reported the following cases:
• A man, 17, was arrested after his mother, 42, said she was assaulted in the 100 block of North Union Street at 9:13 p.m. Wednesday.
• A warrant is being sought for a man, 24, after his girlfriend, 20, said she was assaulted in the first block of Laramie Court at 10:28 a.m. Wednesday.
• A warrant is being sought for a man, 49, after his wife, 46, said she was assaulted in the first block of Stringham Road at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
• A man, 26, was arrested after his wife, 26, said she was assaulted in the 100 block of Columbia Avenue at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday.
• A warrant is being sought for a man, 33, after his former girlfriend, 19, said she was assaulted in the first block of Bartlett Street at 1:07 p.m. Tuesday.
• A man, 61, was arrested after his wife, 39, said she was assaulted in the first block of North Division Street at 5:07 p.m. Tuesday.
BREAK-INS: • St. Peter Lutheran Church, 1079 Riverside Drive: nothing taken.
THEFTS: • Wellington Avenue, 900 block, Bedford Township: keys. • Horrocks, 235 Capital Ave. S.W.: undisclosed.
VANDALISM: • Dahlia Drive, 5600 block: vehicle.
Call Silent Observer at 269-964-3888 or text CRIMES (274637) SOTIP or see www.crimereports.com with information about crimes.