By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
A man was arrested after two women were allegedly battered at a residence just south of Salina early Thursday afternoon.
Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander said this morning that deputies were sent to a residence in the 400 block of E. Water Well Road at 12:15 p.m. Thursday for the report of a disturbance. When they arrived, they discovered that the 45-year-old female victim was at the nearby business from where she called in the incident.
The woman told deputies that while she was at the residence, Andrew Wood, 25, got into a verbal argument with her. According to the woman's account of the incident, the argument escalated and Wood allegedly battered her and another woman, who was still in the residence with Wood, Melander said. Wood also allegedly used a shovel to threaten the woman who reported the incident, he added.
Deputies were able to contact the legal resident of the house, who told them that the two people still inside did not have permission to be there. The victim who reported the incident was the only person who had permission to be there. Melander said that woman had invited the other two people into the house.
Deputies forced their way into the residence and arrested Wood on four active Salina Municipal Court warrants and the following requested charges, Melander said.
●Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
●Domestic battery
●Battery
●Criminal restraint
While there, the deputies discovered that a woman in the residence, Taylor Bennet, 21, of Salina, had two active Salina Municipal Court warrants, so they arrested her as well, Melander said.