After a sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a domestic in the Midland area last Sunday afternoon, and saw a woman’s injuries and the disarray in the home, he went looking for a suspect, found him in Linton and took him to jail.

Aaron Wayne Evans, 30, of Jasonville, was booked in to the Greene County Jail around 7:00 p.m. Sunday, November 4, by Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy Harvey Holt.

Deputy Holt was dispatched at 4:35 p.m. that afternoon to a residence in the Midland area for a domestic dispute where a live-in boyfriend was reported to have hit his girlfriend.

When Holt arrived, he talked to a woman who told him Evans had come home around 3 p.m. and accused her of cheating on him because she was wearing make-up. She said he smacked her on both ears and punched her in the head. She tried to get away but he followed her, hitting her several times with a wire coat hanger.

Deputy Holt said she told him Evans then pushed her onto a couch, put his hands around her neck and squeezed her throat. Then she was forced to sit in the bathroom while he took a shower, so she would not run off. But she was able to run off at that point, and ran to a neighbor’s house.

According to Deputy Holt, the woman explained that when she went out to gather some items from a truck, Evans came out of their house, grabbed her, threw her on the ground then dragged her across a muddy yard with the hood of her sweatshirt.

Deputy Holt talked to the neighbor, who confirmed the incident in the yard, saying they had witnessed it.

Holt said the woman had a medium-sized bump on her forehead, she was bleeding from her right ear, she had a scrape on a cheek, a small bruise on her left jaw, scrapes on the right side of her neck and a mark on a thigh where she had been hit with the hanger.

The deputy took photos of the woman’s injuries and the still-wet muddy clothing she was wearing at the time of the incident.

When Holt walked through the woman’s home, he reported seeing a broken window, a broken cup, and drawers open and thrown around the kitchen along with a wire hanger thrown on the floor of a bedroom.

Deputy Holt located Evans in Linton at an intersection on State Road 54 West. Evans was stopped and taken into custody. Evans allegedly admitted he had been in a verbal argument with his girlfriend but said it never got physical.

Holt reported Evans did not have a valid driver’s license – his status was unlicensed and suspended with a prior. A records check showed he had two convictions for operating a vehicle while never having received a license, one in 2017 and one in 2014, and he had a conviction for driving while suspended in 2017, all in Greene County.

Bond was set at $12,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed.

A criminal case was filed Wednesday on preliminary charges of:

Domestic battery, a Class A misdemeanor,
Strangulation, a Level 6 felony,
Driving while suspended – a knowing violation with a prior conviction, a Class A misdemeanor, and
Knowingly or intentionally operating a vehicle without ever receiving a license, with a prior, a Class A misdemeanor.