A West Des Moines man who faces multiple assault charges after a Halloween fight allegedly violated the terms of a no-contact order when he phoned his girlfriend from jail.
Alexander Londell Handeland, 24, of 1258 Office Park Road, West Des Moines, was charged with domestic abuse assault with injury, assault causing bodily injury, third-degree theft, interference with official acts, violation of parole and four counts of violation of a no-contact order.
The alleged assaults occurred about 2 a.m. Oct. 31 in the 6400 block of Galleria Drive in West Des Moines, where officers of the West Des Moines Police Department responded to a report of a disturbance.
The incident began when Handeland allegedly “pushed the victim to the ground” in the course of “a verbal argument in the parking lot of their apartment complex,” according to court records. The victim sustained “two skin marks on her left and right knee from being pushed to the ground.”
Handeland also allegedly “took the victim’s iPhone” and refused to return it.
A man from Lexington, Kentucky, “heard a female crying outside” in the parking lot and “attempted to help the crying female,” according to court records.
In response, Handeland allegedly “came out of an apartment complex and charged at the victim” and also “head butted another male on scene multiple times,” according to court records.
The Kentuckian attempted to intervene in the head butting, and Handeland allegedly struck him “multiple times in the face, with a closed fist, with his left and right hands,” leaving “a mark on the victim’s right cheek underneath his eye.”
Handeland was eventually taken into custody and found to be in possession of the female victim’s cell phone, according to court records.
Handeland later allegedly telephoned the victim several times during the first week of November while in the custody of the Dallas County Jail, allegedly violating the no-contact order that was served Oct. 31.
Handeland is held in the Dallas County Jail on a $5,000 cash-only bond. He is scheduled for a hearing Dec. 2 in Dallas County District Court.
Handeland was convicted of a controlled substance violation in 2017 in Polk County District Court.
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
