Ruston Police arrested a local man Thursday night after investigating a disturbance.
Officers responded to the intersection of Neal Street and East Georgia Avenue where they found a woman outside a black SUV slumped over complaining of pain in her left arm and shoulder. Steven Cano, 32, of Ruston, was seated in the vehicle.
The woman said Cano had pulled her hair and arm, causing dislocation of her left shoulder. She explained Cano was her boyfriend of five years and they had an argument that this escalated to Cano battering her.
The woman said Cano pulled over and tried to remove her from the vehicle and that’s when her arm was injured. She said Cano also took her cell phone and threw it out the window of the vehicle. Officers found the phone on the pavement near the vehicle and saw that it was damaged.
When officers attempted to arrest Cano, he pulled away and refused to comply with commands to stop resisting.
Cano said the injury to the woman occurred when he defended himself while she was fighting with him. EMS personnel who responded to this scene suspected the woman had suffered a fracture.
Cano was taken into custody and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for second degree battery with serious injury, resisting an officer, and simple criminal damage to property.
Bail was set at $6,000.
This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
