Siblings, Meth Lead to Aggravated Assault, Threats

Police were called twice in the early hours of the morning last Thursday to a home on Renee Drive near Five Forks-Trickum Road, where things ended in warrants for aggravated battery and terroristic threats. 

The first call was reported at 3:30 a.m. by a 47-year-old man who lives at the residence. With the complaint of a domestic disturbance, the man told police that his brother, 42, was smoking methamphetamine and drinking beer with his friends in the pool. The older brother later told police that his brother, who also lived there, had been on meth for more than a year.  

The younger brother, whom police found in his bedroom, admitted that he had been smoking meth 15 minutes before officers arrived. Police found a shaving mirror with a razor blade, a straw and some white residue on it, which he admitted was meth. There wasn't enough residue for a NIK public safety drug test, though, so police did not arrest him for drug possession. 

During the ordeal, according to the report, the younger brother was noticeably agitated, saying that his brother always calls the cops. When the officers left, though, the brothers seemed to have calmed down. 

At 4:46 a.m., another domestic disturbance call was made, but this time the younger brother made the call. The younger brother said that his brother hit him in the head with a brick while they were arguing, which resulted in a bleeding cut above his right eye. 

When the same officers arrived, they found the younger brother angry and yelling in the street. He told police that his older brother stole his cell phone, refused to give it back, and then threw a brick at his head. 

Police then interviewed two of his friends and the older brother. One friend said that the younger brother charged at the older brother, saying that he was going to kill him. To her, the younger brother appeared to have gone crazy, so she ran to call police. 

The other friend confirmed a similar story. She agreed that the younger brother charged out of the home and toward his brother, in addition to making the threats. She also saw the younger brother attempt to throw a brick and also punch his brother, but missed, so the older brother, also with a brick in hand, struck his brother in the face in self defense.

At this point, the woman said that the younger brother went to call police and told his brother that he was going to jail. He attempted to charge at his brother again to hit him, but police arrived.

According to the older brother, his brother was mad because he thought police had taken his cell phone. It was actually in his bathroom, though. The two argued about the younger brother's behavior, which led to the younger sibling throwing a beer bottle at him and missing. More screaming and yelling followed, the younger brother attempted to punch and throw a brick, but that missed the brother, too. The older brother then hit him in the face with brick. 

Police determined that the injury on the complainant's face resembled a "glancing strike," thus not supporting the younger brother's claim that the brick was thrown at him. 

After interviewing the witnesses and the brothers, police determined that the primary aggressor was the younger brother. Paramedics treated him at his house and then he was placed under arrest for aggravated battery.

As police drove him to the county jail, the offender started making threats toward his brother, saying that he was going to take care of him when he gets out of jail and that he was going to stab him. Police made an additional warrant for terroristic threats.