Crime & Safety

Police Break Into Apartment to Investigate Domestic Violence Case

Officers kicked in the door after a witness said they saw a woman yelling for help from the balcony of her Rivershire apartment.

A Greenfield man was arrested for domestic violence – battery after police forced their way into a couple’s apartment in the Rivershire complex May 27.

According to the Greenfield Police Department report, police received a call from a witness who said he saw a woman on the balcony of a Rivershire apartment around noon that day. She looked scared and distressed, yelled for help and shouted things such as, “He won’t let me leave.”

When police arrived at the apartment, which they had been two on previous occasions for a domestic violence complaint and welfare checks, no one answered the door. Based on the witness’s account and the previous incidents at the apartment, officers kicked the door open.

Inside they found a man, his girlfriend of seven years and their two young children. The girlfriend had a large bump above her right eye, according to the report, but told police nothing was wrong and that she must have bumped her head while going out to the balcony.


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