Robert Finch, 39, was charged with felonious assault and domestic violence. A bond of $25,000 was set against him during an arraignment hearing Wednesday morning.
Springfield police began their investigation at around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning when they were called to a West Johnson Avenue residence. There, they met a woman who said she was threatened by Finch.
“I noticed a female frantically motioning for me to come inside the breezeway at the apartment building where she was hiding,” an affidavit filed in support of the charges says. “I noticed (the woman) was very paranoid and anxious. She was looking out the windows and peeking around corners to see if Mr. Finch was following her.”
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The woman said she was threatened with a firearm and that “Finch attempted to strike her in the face and head with a metal pipe that resembled something like a police baton.”
The woman said, according to the affidavit, that Finch was angry with her because she planned to move out of town and leave him.
Finch was previously arrested and charged for breaking her nose and knocking her unconscious, the affidavit says.
“(The woman) stated she was not injured but very afraid of Mr. Finch due to his increasingly violent actions and behavior,” the affidavit says.
Finch was arrested in connection to the latest alleged attack. He was not listed as an inmate in the Clark County Jail on Sunday, according to online jail records.
2. Clark County man accused of purposefully burning down home
Casey Mougey, 32, was charged with aggravated arson. He previously pleaded not guilty to the accusation.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office began their investigation Sept. 30 when they were called to a home that was completely destroyed by a fire on South Burnett Road. A fire marshal investigator said he determined the fire was man-made, an affidavit says.
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Mougey was arrested shortly after the fire began and allegedly said, according to the affidavit, that he didn’t mind that the house was burning down.
People who were inside the home right before the fire began said Mougey was acting strange, according to the affidavit.
He was listed as an inmate in the Clark County Jail on Sunday, according to online jail records.
3. Springfield police investigating a shots fired incident
Law enforcement were called to a home on East Johnson Avenue Sunday, Nov. 24, at around 7 p.m. There, a woman said she was outside smoking a cigarette in her front yard when two men walked up into her driveway towards her backyard wearing dark clothing.
“She stated ‘get out of my yard,’ the police report says. “The males then stated ‘We are gang members (expletive). At this time one of the males pulled out a gun and waved it in the air.”
The woman said she went inside the home at this time but then heard approximately six or seven shots. The woman stated that the males then walked south on Superior Avenue when she heard four or five more shots.
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“After speaking with (the woman) dispatch advised that (a home on) Superior Avenue had been shot, but no one was injured,” the report says, “Officers arrived at the address and spoke with (another woman).”
The woman told officers that she was sitting in her front living room next to the window when she heard several shots and realized they were hitting her home.
“Officers located five bullet holes into the front of the residence,” the report says.
The woman at the home was unable to give officers a description of the men who fired the shots.
Springfield police took photographs of the scene and collected evidence, the report says, however no charges were filed at the time.
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