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Carson City woman arrested for domestic battery after allegedly striking her boyfriend with a notebook

A 28-year-old Carson City woman was arrested in the 400 block of Jeanell Drive for suspicion of domestic battery Friday night after allegedly striking her boyfriend of six weeks in the face with a notebook.

According to the report, deputies were dispatched to the residence in reference to a domestic battery. A man said he had been battered by his girlfriend of six weeks.

The man told deputies he had arrived home and heard a knock at the window, where he saw his girlfriend outside screaming and yelling.

He said he went to the front door of the complex to let her in, and she was holding a notebook in her hand When he opened the door she walked towards him and hit him in the face with the notebook.

He told deputies he believed she was on drugs. They both walked back to the apartment, and he walked into the kitchen, when she shoved him in the center of his chest with her hands.

At that point, he said, he left the apartment and went outside to call the police.

Deputies noted they did not see any visible marks on his face or body.

Deputies went and spoke to the girlfriend. When they approached the open door, they saw that the woman only had on a tan skirt, and deputies told her to put on a shirt. She disappeared from view, and deputies feared she would get a weapon so they followed her inside.

They found her in the bathroom as she was getting into the bathtub. They told her to come out, and she refused. The deputies grabbed her by her wrists and pulled her out of the bathroom, and she sat down on the floor int he kitchen area.

According to the report, the woman had large, dilated pupils and could not hold still.

Deputies asked her what had transpired that evening, and she begin telling deputies “some sort of story that did not make sense,” according to deputies. During their discussion, deputies asked her several times to cover her top half, and she refused.

Deputies asked her if she had a blue notebook, and she said she had a blue book that she “smacked (the boyfriend) upside the head” with. She then became extremely unintelligible with the remainder of her story, but she did admit to hitting the man with the book.

Deputies grabbed her wrists and pulled a shirt over her head to cover her before placing her in handcuffs. She became verbally uncooperative and began to pull away from deputies before falling to the floor. Deputies then physically carried her to the patrol unit and placed her in the backseat.

She was transported to the jail without further incident.

Bail: $3,137

— A 35-year-old Reno man was arrested at the hospital just after midnight Saturday for destruction of property.

According to the police report, deputies responded to the hospital in reference to a man walking through the hospital destroying hospital property. While enroute, dispatch advised the man was flipping over tables, breaking lamps and pulling phones out of the walls.

Prior to arrival dispatch advised hospital security had located the man outside in the north parking lot next to the ambulance bay. Deputies arrived on scene and met with the security officer, a charge nurse, and a correctional officer, all of whom witnessed the man destroying property.

The damages totaled approximately $2,000.

When deputies spoke to the man, he admitted he had consumed two bottles of wine and 4 Xanax pills prior to being transported to the hospital.

Deputies asked why he had damaged all of the property and he stated he did not remember doing it.

Bail: $2,637

Warrants:

— A 62-year-old Carson City man was arrested in the area of Carson and Musser Streets early Saturday morning for a felony outside agency warrant, issued out of Placerville on June 3, 2018.

Jeffry Alan Hope was arrested after deputies noticed a man walking down the middle of the road despite there being a sidewalk.

The warrant was issued after Hope allegedly violated his probation.

Bail: $20,000

— A 23-year-old Dayton man was arrested in the area of 5th and Roop Streets Friday afternoon on a warrant out of Esmerelda Township, issued May 31.

The warrant was issued for allegedly failing to pay fines or comply with a citation.

Bail: $1,040 cash only

All information for the crime log (unless otherwise noted) comes from the arrest reports supplied by the Carson City Sheriff's Office, and is considered by law to be public information. All subjects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The policy of Carson Now is to name anyone who is arrested for a felony offense.

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