A Kirkland man was charged with two felonies and two gross misdemeanors after allegedly threatening and assaulting his girlfriend, and attacking an Olympia police officer.
The 31-year-old suspect was arrested on February 11 after his girlfriend reported that he slammed her head into a wall over his missing dog.
When the victim snuck out of the home to call the police, she reported “that her boyfriend had assaulted her and she maintained an open line until we arrived so we could listen,” one of the police reported, saying that she provided that she was scared about her safety.
The girlfriend added that the suspect threatened to cut her throat. She believed that he would carry out his threat because he was in the kitchen next to a magnetic wall rack full of kitchen knives at the time “and appeared to be referring to using one of them,” according to the police report. She later shared that the suspect owns several guns.
The victim stated that during the fight, the suspect had “picked up her cat and threatened to kill it if his dogs, which had escaped, were not found. The cat did not exhibit any injuries,” said the officer’s statement in the report.
Police found a large dent in the house that they said appeared to be consistent with the size of the girlfriend’s head. She also had a blood blister on her right pinky finger and a bleeding abrasion on her right wrist, which she said she got from her scuffle with her boyfriend.
The suspect declined to comment on the incident.
“Based on the allegations of assault, his obvious intoxication, and his loud, angry yelling and agitated demeanor I decided to place him in handcuffs and frisk him for weapons,” the arresting officer stated in his report.
Police then informed him that he was under arrest for fourth-degree assault and felony harassment. He tensed his body and walked slowly against two officers who were trying to bring him to a patrol car, the police report stated.
When they reached the car, an officer instructed the suspect to widen his stance so they could search him, but the man refused to comply and yelled, “F*ck you guys.”
One officer placed his boot between the suspect’s feet and got him to move his feet shoulder-width apart. However, the suspect became “verbally resistant” and started to argue with police about being searched.
“During this argument I could feel his muscles tensing and I could feel him trying to move around,” an officer wrote in his report. “He picked up his left foot and stomped on my right instep, which was painful.”
The officer said he told the suspect to stop kicking him, but the man responded by stomping on his feet again.
Police brought the suspect to the ground by knocking him off balance. After the takedown and being put in the back of a police vehicle, the suspect was cleared by the fire department medics.
The suspect was booked into the Thurston County Jail for third- and fourth-degree assault, felony harassment and third-degree malicious mischief.
On February 14, the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney charged the suspect with the same four charges.
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