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Santa Monica Police Arrest Man, 34, For Assaulting Girlfriend During Argument

Alert Police Blotter: The Sound Of Breaking Glass.

Posted Dec. 19, 2012, 1:06 am

Tim Broughton / Mirror Contributor

Santa Monica police arrested a 34-year-old man on Friday, Dec. 7 for assaulting his girlfriend after a long night of arguing.

At 4:02 a.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a residence in the 700 block of Ashland Avenue after they had received a report of a domestic violence incident in progress.

The caller had heard sounds of screaming and breaking glass.

When the officers arrived they were directed to the relevant apartment and spoke with the two residents.

The officers discovered that these two individuals were in a relationship and had been cohabiting for a year.

They had both been out at a local business that evening and while they were there they had become embroiled in an argument.

Upon returning home the argument continued and they both began to express themselves by smashing up their own property within the confines of their apartment.

The officers noticed the female half of this pair had swelling developing under her eye, and when asked about this, the male half denied any knowledge of any physical altercation.

The officers took note that the man and woman had given conflicting statements.

The officers decided to arrest the man, aged 35, and a Santa Monica resident and he was charged with inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.

Bail was set at $50,000.

Editor's Note: These reports are part of a regular police coverage series entitled "Alert Police Blotter" (APB), which injects some minor editorial into certain police activities in Santa Monica. Not all of the Mirror's coverage of incidents involving police are portrayed in this manner. More serious crimes and police-related activities are regularly reported without editorial in the pages of the Santa Monica Mirror and its website, smmirror.com.