by Steve Reinbrecht
The worst crimes
reported in Southwestern Berks County in October were three assaults in Sinking
Spring.
In one case, on Oct.
20, borough police reported a domestic assault about 7 p.m. in the 600 block of
Vester Place.
When they arrived, Sinking
Spring police had to wrestle a 7-month-old baby from a man who was holding her
when they tried to arrest him, according to court documents.
According to the
complaint, in District Judge Ann Young’s office:
The father, 25, was
sitting outside their apartment holding the infant and crying when police
responded.
The man told police
that the couple had started fighting when he took car keys to prevent the
mother, 28, from taking a car. The mother tackled, punched and bit the father
while he was holding the baby, who at one point hit her head on a wall.
The father got irate
when police told him that the child needed to go to a hospital to be examined.
Police insisted he release the baby because he was under arrest, but he held
her tighter.
One officer put the
father in a choke hold, and he released the baby before passing out for a
several seconds.
Police charged him
with resisting arrest, and the mother with assault. Those charges were
dismissed after they pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
The baby was kept
overnight at a hospital.
The same day, an
assault was reported about 8:40 a.m. at a house in the 200 block of Elwyn
Avenue. Police Chief Lee Schweyer
said it is under investigation.
The third assault
was reported Oct. 29 in the 700 block of Ruth Street. Several people fought
outside that Saturday night, but no charges were filed.
See the August 2016 crime report for Southwestern Berks.
All together, police
reported 35 crimes in Wernersville, Lower Heidelberg, South Heidelberg and
Sinking Spring in October, up from the 32 reported in September.
I found another
database to plumb for local-crime information – Berks County’s “time response log.”
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