A man was arrested on preliminary charges of strangulation Sunday, said Sgt. Mic Williams reading from a police report. Bloomington Police officers were dispatched to the 700 block of South Clarizz Blvd. after a resident in a neighboring apartment heard a male and female screaming, Williams said. Officers initially could not make contact with anyone inside the apartment where the screaming came from.\n An officer heard a female crying inside the apartment and after continually knocking on the door announced that the officers would force their way in if no one answered. At that point Ryan Rene, 27, answered the door. Rene denied that there had been any problems. The officer located the female that she heard crying in back bedroom of the apartment. The officer observed scratches and red marks on the female's left arm and neck. The female told the officer that she and Rene were supposed to meet up with each other while they were out earlier that night. The two never ended up meeting and when they returned home they began to argue.\nRene told the female to get out of the apartment, Williams said. He then threw a cell phone at her and it hit her on the left side of the head. Rene picked her up with both hands around her neck in an attempt to throw her out of the apartment, according to the police report. The female tried to fight him off and made her way back into the apartment. Rene kept the female in the back bedroom when officers arrived to prevent her from answering the door, Williams said.\nRene initially denied that there was any physical altercation. He later admitted there was some physical altercation but did not elaborate, Williams said.\nRene was taken into custody by Bloomington Police and booked on preliminary charges of strangulation, a class D felony; criminal confinement, also a class D felony and domestic battery, a class A misdemeanor.
Man accused of hitting woman with car outside Petsmart store Saturday
Bloomington Police are investigating an aggravated battery case involving a dispute over a parking space that occurred Saturday.\nThe complainant was standing in a parking space with her dog to save the spot for her husband outside Petsmart located at 240 N. Gates Drive, said Sgt. Mic Williams reading from a police report. A green Chevrolet Blazer began to pull into the parking space where the complainant was standing with her dog. The complainant said she heard a male voice yell to get out of the way, Williams said. She pointed to her husband's vehicle and said she was saving the space for him.\nThe complainant said the male in the green Blazer then pressed his accelerator and hit her in the knee with his bumper. The complainant said the impact moved her back several inches.\nThe complainant's husband and the male in the green blazer got out of their vehicles and exchanged words. The complainant began to call the police. The male got back into his vehicle and drove away before officers arrived.\nAn officer was able to make contact with the male after the complainant gave him the license plate number on the green blazer. The driver of the vehicle said that he was upset and that it was a "road rage thing." Officers can't say for sure that the driver actually struck the victim because there is no damage to the vehicle and the victim sustained no injuries. Bloomington Police are still talking to witnesses to determine what happened.
