Crime Blotter: Battery Investigation Opened in Domestic Dispute

Crime blotter information provided by the Sierra Madre Police Department.

Tuesday June 18, 2013

At 2pm, units responded to a report of a kidnapping at Kersting Court.  On arrival officers determined that the matter was not a kidnap, but was a fight between a father and daughter.   The two were travelling in a vehicle when they became engaged in a verbal argument.  At one point, the daughter attempted to exit the vehicle while it was still moving.  In response the father used physical force to prevent her from doing so.  A battery report was completed and the investigation into the matter is continuing. 

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