LPD officers responded late Saturday night to two different locations where a suspect allegedly attacked four different people. The suspect is facing charges of felony strangulations and multiple batteries.

Isaac Abraham Pugh, 31, Carlisle, was arrested by Lieutenant Bobby Pierce of the Linton Police Department early Sunday, October 2, following an incident that started on Saturday, October 1.

The LPD got a call on Saturday from a man who said two men in a black Chevrolet truck came to a residence on 7th St NE in Linton, got out and slammed his girlfriend’s head into the ground then left the scene. Later in the investigation, it was determined that only one man was there and suspect.

Lieutenant Pierce responded to the scene along with LPD Officers Janzen Franklin and Alan Jackson.

When Lieutenant Pierce talked to the man who reported the incident and his girlfriend, he learned they had invited a co-worker named Isaac over because Isaac told them he could fix their broken screen door and while Isaac was there, they all started drinking Captain Morgan rum. They explained that for unknown reasons, Isaac eventually became violent and attacked them both. The man said Isaac punched him in the face and choked him. The girlfriend said she tried to help the man during this altercation and Isaac hit her in the face. Lieutenant Pierce reported the man had redness and swelling to his forehead and redness and bruising on both sides of his neck and the woman had redness, swelling and bruising above her left eye.

The officers then established the suspect they were looking for was Isaac Pugh and they left the residence and started looking for Pugh.

While they were looking, Greene County Dispatch got a call from a woman who said a man was in the area of the Musselman Apartments “tweaking” or intoxicated and that he had choked a woman outside the apartments. The caller said the man was walking on 10th St NE at that time.

When the officers arrived in that area, the caller waved them down and pointed towards the apartments and said the suspect, who was identified as Isaac Pugh, was standing with several other people.

Lieutenant Pierce took Pugh to his patrol vehicle and read him his Miranda rights. He said Pugh appeared heavily intoxicated and would not talk about the prior altercation but the officer saw blood in Pugh’s left ear and blood on the right side of his neck along with several scratches on his back, a scuffed up left knee and he was complaining of pain to his right ankle.

Pugh was transported to Greene County General Hospital for treatment of his injuries and was advised that his ankle was broken. Pugh did not give an explanation for any of his injuries.

As Lieutenant Pierce was dealing with Pugh, Officer Jackson talked to at least five other individuals who were on the scene. All of them confirmed that two people were attacked by Pugh at that location.

The woman who was attacked said they were outside the apartments and could hear a man “howling” so they started howling back, just being goofy, but Pugh walked up to them, put his hands around her throat and began pushing her backwards. She said Pugh dared her to punch him and called her a bad name. Then Pugh walked up onto a porch and started shoving her brother.

Her brother, the other person who was attacked, said Pugh got up in his face and started shoving him with both his body and his hands. He said he wrestled Pugh off of him and another man broke up the altercation, walked Pugh to the roadway and told him to stay away.

Following medical treatment, Pugh was taken into custody and transported to the sheriff's department where he was booked in to the Greene County Jail at 2:31 AM with bond set at $11,000 surety with 10% cash allowed.

A criminal case was filed against Pugh on Monday and he is scheduled to appear in Greene Superior Court on October 17 for his initial hearing when he will be formally charged with: