A suspect allegedly angry at his girlfriend because she only gave him $570 instead of the full amount she owed him was arrested on a domestic assault charge Friday.
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A suspect allegedly angry at his girlfriend because she only gave him $570 instead of the full amount she owed him was arrested on a domestic assault charge Friday, according to the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.
Fernando Delroy Rhodes, 36, of Sims Road wants to buy a van and became upset over not being given more money, Sgt. Clyde Boyce’s report said. Rhodes allegedly struck the woman in the face, cutting her lips, and was grabbed twice and pushed down as she tried to run out the back door of their Sims Road home.
The victim tried to make it to a nearby relative’s home but Rhodes allegedly pushed her down again. She went back to their home and gave him money and vehicle keys but was grabbed by the neck, the report said.
Rhodes also broke her cellphone and a television before she was able to get away and call for help.
“The biggest concern to him in his statement was the money issue and not the assault,” Boyce’s report said.
Rhodes posted $2,500 bond.
Mark Glen Dodson,,51, allegedly lost his temper after a long, frustrating phone session with a bank’s customer service representative, police were told. Dodson and his wife, who both said they’d been drinking, began arguing over money and a sprained ankle she told police was suffered when Dodson pushed her down a few days earlier.
Friday’s incident allegedly escalated to Dodson hitting her in the face several times with his fist and shoving her out the door of their Green Lane camper home onto the ground. Dodson dragged her across the driveway, where she told Officer Dylan Bliss she thought she was unconscious at one point, the report said.
Dodson said she hit him several times and he was attempting to get her back into the camper.
“There were obvious drag marks in the driveway,” Bliss said in his report.
The victim had a bloody nose, swollen eye and a cut to the back of her head, according to Bliss. She was “strongly urged” by medical personnel to go to the hospital but didn’t immediately do so, police said.
Dodson was charged with aggravated domestic assault and held on $15,000 bond.
