FELONIOUS ASSAULT: A 27-year-old Battle Creek woman was arrested on a charge of felonious assault with a motor vehicle after another woman said her car was struck while she was inside. Battle Creek police were called at 8:07 a.m. Thursday to the 300 block of Clover Lane by the victim, 26, of Battle Creek. She told police she was in her parked car with the suspect's former boyfriend when the other woman drove her car behind the victim's car. The victim said the other woman came to her car and began yelling at the victim before using a metal object to smash the driver's side window. The man left the vehicle and attempted to calm his former girlfriend but she began chasing him with some pepper spray. The female victim then drove away with the other woman following in her own car. A police dispatcher told the victim to return to Clover Lane so police officers could find her and when she did, she told officers, the suspect then hit her car with her own. When police questioned the suspect she said the damage to the window was already done and denied driving her car into the side of the victim's car. Police said the woman was yelling and screaming and kicking the seat in the patrol car as she was taken to the Calhoun County jail.

MOTHER ASSAULTED: A 24-year-old Battle Creek man was arrested after his mother, 52, said she was assaulted and threatened with a grilling fork. Battle Creek officers were called at 9:36 p.m. Thursday to Bronson Battle Creek where the woman was seeking treatment and said she was assaulted in the first block of Calhoun Street. She told police her son came home after drinking and began yelling at her because his brother had a different father. She said he began punching her in the face and slamming her head into the wall and kitchen counter. He grabbed a meat fork and threatened to stab her in the neck. She was able to escape when a friend of her son arrived. The son said he was arguing with his mother and she slapped him and so he hit her "to prove a point." He told officers after he hit his mother he was holding her and telling her he was sorry. He was taken to the Calhoun County jail.


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