BAMBERG – An early morning chat on the Internet resulted in the arrest of a Bamberg man for criminal domestic violence after an argument between him and his wife turned to blows.

Police were dispatched to a North Street residence at around 3 a.m. on Aug. 14 after a 23-year-old woman complained her husband “pushed her through a door and that she had a hole in her lip,” a Bamberg Police Department incident report stated.

The woman told police she and her husband got into an argument because she was on the computer chatting with someone.

The husband allegedly pushed his wife through a door, causing her to fall, and then pushed the door into her as she tried to get up. The door knob struck her mouth, she said. Officers observed a fresh wound on the woman’s upper lip, along with wounds on her hand, elbow, knee and neck.

The husband told police he accidentally hit his wife with the door. Police arrested the man without incident. Both husband and wife admitted they had been drinking.

In unrelated cases:

* Police are investigating a former employee of Movie Gallery who allegedly pocketed $850 of store money over a period of time, an incident report stated. An in-house investigation by the store exposed the theft, and the former employee made a written statement apologizing for her actions, a store representative stated. The employee agreed to return the money; however, numerous attempts by the store to contact the Waldo Street woman had failed, the police report stated.

* An attempt to serve a warrant on a Tatum Street man failed when he fled the scene. An officer spotted the 36-year-old man on Aug. 13 on Hill Street. Knowing the man had active warrants out on him, the officer approached him and advised him he was under arrest. According to the police report, the man told the officer, “I guess I’m gone again,” and took off running. A search of the area with additional officers failed to locate the subject who was charged with second-offense resisting arrest.

* A Walker Street woman told police she suspected her boyfriend put sugar in the gas tank of her car between Aug. 8 and 9. The incident occurred after the couple had an argument, the report stated. When the woman later got in her car to drive off, the vehicle began to act up and then stopped running, she told police. An employee of an auto shop said the sugar might be the cause of the problem after he checked the fuel lines, the report stated. The victim said her boyfriend was the last one to be around the car. Police located the boyfriend who denied any wrongdoing. The woman was advised to see the judge about obtaining a courtesy summons.

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