Deputies of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office arrested a male and female pair Saturday morning as a result of a burglary in progress reported on Spruce Street in Lakeview, where the victim also sought medical treatment after reportedly being assaulted with a crowbar.
Christopher J. Dumont, 35, of 14137 Rosewood Ave., Lakeview, was charged with felonious assault and breaking and entering, and Tiffany M. Haynes, 32, of Lakeview, was charged with breaking and entering, criminal trespass, theft and safecracking. Both defendants were lodged in the Logan County Jail Saturday afternoon.
Deputies were dispatched to the Spruce Street residence about 9:45 a.m. and received information from the resident, who said he had been by a crowbar.
The resident told dispatchers he was familiar with the suspects at the home. He told deputies on the scene that he discovered that the defendants were trying to break into his unattached garage.
He said he confronted the two suspects and he said Dumont struck his hand with a crowbar. He said he struck Dumont with his injured hand and then Dumont struck him again with the crowbar before the resident retreated inside his home.
Indian Lake EMS transported the resident to Mary Rutan Hospital for treatment of injuries. Deputies later learned that the victim sustained a broken bone in his hand and had been fitted for a cast.
Upon arriving at the home, deputies observed a pickup parked in the driveway that had a variety of power tools and equipment in the pickup bed. Deputies ordered the driver, later identified as Haynes, out from the vehicle. Dumont also approached deputies from behind the house.
Deputies also observed that a gas can, crowbar and a tool case on the driveway near the passenger side of the vehicle. Dumont admitted to deputies that he had these items in his hands, but put them down upon deputies’ arrival.
Haynes told deputies that her estranged husband also lives at the residence and she went there that day to retrieve her property. She said the crowbar was hers and that she gave it to Dumont after arriving at the residence.
Haynes’ estranged husband arrived home while deputies were at the property, and he told deputies that the property in the pickup bed belonged to him.
Upon entering the garage, he also found that his safe was missing. The safe also was located in the pickup bed, with a piece of lumber with protruding screws attached to it, suggesting that it had been pried from its location on a workbench in the garage.
Inside the safe, Haynes’ estranged husband also produced paperwork from a temporary restraining order dated June 3 from Logan County Domestic Relations that prevented Haynes from loitering near the property.
Both defendants were transported to the jail, where deputies interviewed Dumont. He told them that Haynes had asked him to help her retrieve some of her daughter’s possessions. At the residence, he said Haynes instructed him to load items into her vehicle once she brought them outside.
Haynes said he did not strike the resident who was injured with the crowbar, but stated he pushed him against a porch.