A Perry man was arrested in Sunday for the third time this month.
Benjamin Sanchez Styles, 39, of 328 Pattee St., Perry, was charged with three counts of assault causing bodily injury or mental illness.
The incident occurred May 6 about 4:45 p.m. in the 1100 block of Second Street, where officers of the Perry Police Department responded to report of an assault.
The officers made contact with the victim, who lives in the residence with two small children. The victim’s mother was also present. The victim told the officers that Styles assaulted her, her mother and her 1-year-old daughter while at the residence.
The victim told the officers that she directed Styles “not to pick her daughter up,” but Styles allegedly “did pick her up and then dropped” the child “onto a mattress on the floor, and the back of” the child’s “head hit the floor,” according to court records
When the victim and her mother and children tried “to leave the apartment,” Styles allegedly began calling the victim “a whore and grabbed at her left arm, leaving red markings,” according to court records.
Styles allegedly “was grabbing onto” the victim’s mother’s arms as well, leaving “red marks on her upper right arm,” according to court records. When the victim’s mother attempted to leave the residence with the victim’s child, Styles allegedly grabbed her “leg and foot, attempting to drag her down the stairs,” and causing the child to “hit her head against the door to the hallway.”
Styles allegedly fled the scene prior to the arrival of the officers.
A warrant for Styles’ arrest was ordered May 9 in Dallas County District Court and served May 15. Styles was held in the Dallas County Jail prior to posting a $1,000 cash or surety bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing May 24 in Dallas County District Court.
Styles was arrested in Perry earlier on the day of the alleged assaults after an officer of the Perry Police Department observed a 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo proceeding the wrong way down McColl Street in downtown Perry about 1 a.m. on May 6. The officer initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver, Styles, who allegedly presented signs of impairment and failed field sobriety tests, according to court records.
Styles was cited and released on a charge of first-offense OWI. He is scheduled for a hearing June 6 in Dallas County District Court.
Styles was arrested May 3 in Perry about 8:30 p.m. outside a convenience store. Officers of the Perry Police Department made contact with Styles, who “was asked multiple times to identify himself via name or identification,” but he allegedly “refused to identify himself and continued to raise his voice to cause a disturbance in the street,” according to court records.
Styles was cited and released on a charge of interference with official acts. He is scheduled for a hearing May 25 in Dallas County District Court.
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
