Bloomington man assaults wife with curtain rod

Bloomington police arrested a man after he assaulted his wife and then entered another house where he fought with multiple subjects. \nOfficers responded to the 1100 block of North Lindbergh Drive just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night, where a woman reported that her husband, Robert L Davis, 34, had hit her with a shower curtain rod, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nPolice arrested Davis for domestic battery and residential entry.\nAccording to reports, Davis and his wife had been fighting because he believed she was cheating on him.\nAs officers arrived, Davis left his house and went down the block, then entered the residence of the man he thought was cheating with his wife, Canada said.\nThere, multiple subjects assaulted the man, who eventually went to Bloomington Hospital for bruising and lacerations to his face.\nAfter the altercation, Davis returned to his house where officers were talking to his wife, whose finger was broken during the battery, Canada said.\nAccording to police reports, Davis smelled strongly of alcohol and had difficulty standing on his own.\nCanada said police were unable to question Davis at that time because he was belligerent, obscene and difficult to understand at times.