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A Syracuse man was arrested Saturday after allegedly slamming his girlfriend’s mother on the ground twice in June.
Todd Raymond Ritchie, 40, of 8708 E. Walnut Drive, Syracuse, was arrested and booked into the Kosciusko County Jail at 10:32 a.m. Saturday for battery, a Class B misdemeanor, with a $600 bond.
At 7:28 a.m. June 25, the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department received a call about a battery that occurred at a trailer in the 400 block of East CR 1150N. The female caller declined EMS.
Upon his arrival, KCSD deputy Neil Likens spoke with the female victim and an unidentified male witness.
The victim said she was sleeping in the living room on the couch when she heard a loud noise coming from the bathroom. She opened the door and saw her daughter breaking the mirror. The victim grabbed her daughter’s shirt and pulled her out of the bathroom and into the living room.
She said the altercation woke up Ritchie, who was sleeping in the back bedroom. The victim said Ritchie got involved because he is dating her daughter.
The victim said Ritchie slammed her down on the floor and began to slam her head against the floor. The daughter started screaming at Ritchie, saying, “Not my mom.” He let the victim go and ran outside to leave.
The victim followed him to get his license plate and he again grabbed her and slammed her on the ground, according to the KCSD incident report.
During the altercation, a glass smoking pipe fell out of Ritchie’s pocket and shattered on the ground. The victim said Ritchie and her daughter got into a car and left.
The victim had cuts and scrapes on her hands, arms and legs. She also had a bump on her head that caused her pain.
The male witness said he was told to take the daughter’s purse to his house and when he returned he saw Ritchie on top of the victim, slamming her on the floor. He then also the victim run outside and get slammed to the ground a second time. He also saw the glass smoking pipe fall out of Ritchie’s pocket and shatter on the ground.
The male witness showed Likens where the pipe fell and broke. Likens recognized the pipe used for smoking meth. He picked up the biggest piece of the pipe and took it in as evidence.
