Staff Reports
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Greenwood man with a history of domestic violence after two people accused him of physically abusing one of them.
Kennith James Adkins, 39, was arrested on charges of domestic battery with a prior conviction against the same family member, a Level 5 felony, and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, a misdemeanor.
Deputies were dispatched at 10:24 p.m. Wednesday to the 2400 block of Willow Lake Drive on the report of a domestic battery in progress.
When they arrived, Adkins was trying to leave in a truck, but deputies blocked him in, according to a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office report. Deputies noticed Adkins moving around in the truck as if he was reaching for something, and held him at gunpoint until he was out of the vehicle and detained. He told deputies he tried to leave because he knew police were coming and that he was going to a friend’s house, the report said.
Adkins told deputies he and the victim were arguing and he had thrown a cell phone at her but did not hit her, the report said.
The victim told deputies she and Adkins were arguing in the bathroom when he grabbed her by the arms, threw her against a wall and threw her on the ground where she hit her head on the toilet. He then grabbed her by the throat, she told deputies.
Deputies observed scratch marks on the victim’s arm, red marks on her neck and face, and a scratch below her right ear that appeared to be blood, according to the report.
Another family member told deputies she heard Adkins and the victim arguing, then “heard stuff banging” in the bathroom, which signaled to her the argument had become physical, but she did not witness the physical altercation, the report said.
Adkins failed three different field sobriety tests and blew a .099 on a preliminary breathalyzer test, above the legal limit of .08.
As deputies took Adkins into custody he asked them, “Have you ever done something you regret?” the report said.
He was taken to the Johnson County jail where he is held without bond.
Adkins was arrested on similar charges in 2014, and sentenced to a year in the Marion County jail. He served just 12 days, according to online court records.
