By Pat Culverhouse
Police officers turned a reported disturbance at a Young St. residence Wednesday into an arrest of a Mansfield man for domestic abuse and numerous drug charges.
Minden Chief of Police Jared McIver said said responding Officer Branthony Brown found a woman outside the residence bleeding from her nose, and noticed fresh blood stains on her shirt.
During questioning, Brown learned the woman’s husband, 30-year-old Latedrick Atkins, had allegedly kneed her in the face during a quarrel as she lay on a mattress. After the initial attack, he then allegedly began choking her.
Brown and Officer Cody James reportedly confronted Atkins inside the residence and placed him under arrest for the alleged assault. During a search of Atkins, the officers found a quantity of illegal narcotics on his person. Officers reportedly found:
• Three baggies of suspected methamphetamines individually packaged in a candy container in his front shorts pocket. A bag of crack cocaine was also found in the container.
• Three individually wrapped baggies of marijuana, suspected to be packaged for sale, inside a pill bottle wrapped with electrical tape in his left shorts’ pocket.
• A small bag of marijuana was fund in his right sock.
Total drugs confiscated were 3.9 grams of crack cocaine, 5.5 grams of methamphetamines and 3.7 grams of marijuana.
Atkins, who listed an address in the 1100 block Fourth St. in South Mansfield, is charged with domestic abuse w/strangulation, possession of CDS Sch. II (crack cocaine), possession of CDS Sch. II w/intent to distribute (methamphetamines) and possession of CDS Sch. I (marijuana) w/intent to distribute.
He reportedly is being held at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center under a $58,500 bond.
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