_ 908 S. Crest: Police were dispatched to the address early Saturday morning on a disorder. According to an affidavit of complaint, when police arrived a man told them that he had been assaulted by his ex-girlfriend. The victim told police that he had invited Ashley Varner, 32, of a Soddy-Daisy address, over and she had been there less than two minutes when she attacked him by strangling him and hitting him in the face five or six times. The report states that officers observed a red mark above the victim’s left eye as well as red marks consistent with strangulation. The reports states that the victim eventually was able to get Varner off of him and out onto the front porch. At that time, the victim told police that Varner began punching and kicking the front door. The victim said that he was worried about the woman damaging his front door so he opened it and pushed her off the porch where she fell down.
Varner told police officers that her ex-boyfriend had invited her to his home numerous times. She showed police numerous text messages on her phone. Varner said that when she was inside the house she received a text message that angered her ex-boyfriend, who then physically threw her from inside the house and down the steps of the front porch. Varner told officers multiple times that she never hit the victim and “didn’t deserve this.” The report states that officers observed scratches on her toes and ankle and she told police that she had a scratch on the left side of her abdomen. The woman declined medical attention.
The report states that police determined Varner was intoxicated and that she was the primary aggressor. She was taken into custody for Aggravated Domestic Assault and Vandalism.
_ Police have charged a Chattanooga man with burglary, assault and stalking related to an incident that happened on July 14.
According to an affidavit of complaint, police spoke with a man and a woman who claim that Michael Lynn Brown, 32, of a McCutcheon Road address in East Brainerd, showed up and began banging on the windows of the home. When the woman opened the door to see what Brown wanted, he allegedly grabbed her and pushed her out of the way and entered the home unlawfully in an attempt to fight the new boyfriend of the woman. The report states that Brown then followed the man out to his car, who was attempting to remove himself from the situation.
The report states that Brown then followed the man for a short while. Both the man and woman showed officers an “excessive amount” of text messages on their phones that they had both received from Brown. They told police they did not want to have any communication with the defendant. The report states that Brown showed “a willful course of conduct that left the victims feeling threatened and harassed.
Brown was charged with Aggravated Burglary, Domestic Assault, Assault and two counts of Stalking.
_ Police have charged a Rossville man with Aggravated Domestic Assault, after he allegedly attacked his wife earlier this month.
According to an affidavit of complaint, police were dispatched to a South Smith Street address earlier this month on a disorder. Police spoke with the victim who told them that her husband, Joshua Remington, 32, of a W. State Line Road address, had assaulted her. The report states that Remington was not at the scene when they arrived, but the victim was holding an ice pack to her head, saying that she had sustained an injury to her head.
The woman told police that she had discovered that her husband was cheating on her, after which time he attacked her by wrapping black duct tape around her neck. The report states that officers saw a crumpled piece of duct tape with strands of hair similar to the color of the victim’s. She said that Remington had also slammed her against a kitchen cabinet, after which she blacked out. The woman indicated the bump on her head was due to her being slammed on the cabinet.
The woman told police that Remington had a history of physically abusing her. A witness told police that they saw Remington grab his wife and wrap the tape around her neck and throw her down.
