An Indianapolis man was sentenced to a few days in jail, years of probation and a year of home detention after he strangled two women, barricaded them in a Greenwood apartment and lunged at a police officer.
Alexander Thomas Frick, 27, 8502 W. Rimwood Drive, Apt. D., pleaded guilty to strangulation and criminal confinement, both Level 6 felonies, and a misdemeanor charge of resisting law enforcement, according to court documents.
While strangulation means the act of killing by squeezing the throat, Indiana law defines it as intentionally applying pressure to another person’s throat or obstructing his or her nose or mouth.
A misdemeanor charge of intimidation was dropped as part of his plea agreement, court documents said.
Johnson County Superior Court 3 Judge Lance Hamner accepted the fixed guilty plea, which sentenced Frick to a year home detention and a year of probation for the strangulation charge, two years of probation for the criminal confinement charge and six days in jail for the resisting law enforcement charge. All of the sentences are set to be served consecutively, according to court documents. He received three days of jail credit.
He is also ordered to complete moral recognition therapy, 80 hours of community service, and mental health treatment and evaluation, court documents said.
The charges stemmed from an incident last May when Greenwood police were called to an apartment in the 100 block of Kings Mill Road on a report of a disturbance.
A man told an officer that Frick had beaten two women. The officer saw Frick standing near some cars parked next to the apartment building, according to the report from the Greenwood Police Department.
The officer asked Frick to sit down and Frick lunged at the officer. The officer pushed Frick onto a car and Frick jumped up and lunged at the officer again. The officer used a bar to force Frick to the ground where he refused to give police both hands so he could be handcuffed. After he was handcuffed, he threatened an officer, according to the report.
A woman told police she saw Frick put both of his hands around another woman’s neck and say, “If you do not make out with me, I’m going to choke you,” the report said.
The woman told Frick “no” and he began to squeeze on her neck, causing her to struggle to breathe and almost lose consciousness, the report said.
A woman told police she tried to pull Frick off of the initial victim, and he pushed her off of him and elbowed her. Frick let go of the initial victim and began squeezing the throat of the woman who attempted to help, according to the report.
The women tried to leave the apartment, but Frick barricaded the door and had a baseball bat at his feet. One of the victims told police Frick said he would kill them if they tried to leave, the report said.
One of them escaped and called a friend, who then called police, according to the report.
The friend busted down the door to the apartment and Frick lunged at him, too.
