Ruston Police arrested a Nebraska man Saturday night after an alleged domestic altercation at a local motel.
Officers responded to Day’s Inn on the North Service Road about 10:00 p.m. in response to a woman reporting her boyfriend had assaulted her and left running west on the Service Road.
Devandre D. David, 25, of Omaha, Nebraska, was found near the Circle K store at the corner of La. 33 and the N. Service Road. David denied being at Day’s Inn and stated he was just leaving the store. The store clerk, however, stated he had not waited on David. When asked for identification, David said he did not have any. He continued to state he had not been at Day’s Inn.
An officer with the victim at Day’s Inn forwarded a photograph of David, confirming the man stopped was the suspect. When officers handcuffed David and attempted to place him in a patrol car, he attempted to pull away and had to be restrained.
A search of David’s backpack found a small container of suspected marijuana. His identification was located in his wallet. With further questioning, David admitted he had been in a vehicle with the female caller, stating she threw punches at him, and he pushed her away.
The woman told officers David was her boyfriend of three years and the father of her two children. She said they were inside the vehicle when David tried to take her phone. He punched her hand several time to make her drop the phone. She said David then grabbed her face and squeezed it hard enough to make it swell. After pushing herself away and falling into the rear seat, David ran from the vehicle after she called police.
Officers saw the victim had injuries around her mount and bleeding scratches on her collar bone and hand.
David was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for domestic abuse battery, resisting an officer, and possession of marijuana.
Bail was set at $2,500.
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