Man arrested after allegedly pulling knife on girlfriend
A local man was arrested on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges
Sunday after allegedly threatening his girlfriend and her neighbors with a knife and breaking into her apartment.
Allen George Hawkins Jr.,
24, who lists a Mound Street address, was taken into custody shortly after 12:30 p.m. and charged with felony counts of residential burglary, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated assault against a law enforcement
officer, punishable by up to six years, and misdemeanor counts of third-degree domestic battery and first-degree criminal mischief.
Hawkins was being held on $16,000 bond and was set to appear Monday in Garland County District Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, around 10 a.m. Sunday, Hot Springs police responded to the apartments at 515 Higdon Ferry Road regarding a woman having her apartment door kicked in by a known suspect, identified as Hawkins. When officers arrived, neither the victim or Hawkins could be located.
Shortly after noon, officers were called back to the apartment regarding a disturbance involving the same people and were told by the resident of one apartment that Hawkins was inside armed with a knife. Officers located Hawkins and detained him.
The female victim told police that around 3:30 a.m. she was in an argument with Hawkins inside her apartment that turned physical. She alleged he struck in the face causing a cut to her lip, a bruise above her eye and a swollen knot to the back of her head.
She said Hawkins left later that morning but she became afraid he would return which was why she called police around 10 a.m. She left her apartment just prior to officers arriving out of fear of Hawkins, she said.
When she returned to her apartment around noon, she found Hawkins inside “brandishing a knife,” so she ran downstairs to her neighbors’ apartment. The two male neighbors told police Hawkins began beating on their door “so hard they feared it would come off the hinges.”
One neighbor answered the door and found Hawkins standing there brandishing the knife shouting, “What are you gonna do?” He said he quickly closed the door and called police.
Officers located a screen off the victim’s apartment window that had been removed which was apparently how Hawkins got into her apartment.
While Hawkins was in back of a patrol unit, he reportedly became violent, banging on the doors with his hands and feet, causing about $200 in damage to the rear door which prevented it from closing properly. Officers had to use lights and siren while transporting him to the detention center “to get there as fast as possible.”
Once there, while Officer Morgan Murray was getting Hawkins out of the vehicle, he allegedly spit in Murray’s face, twice, and had to be physically carried into a cell by deputies.