VANDALIA — Authorities are working to get charges approved for two people after a fight led to a county-wide call for help in Vandalia over the weekend.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, Vandalia police officers responded to reports of disorderly conduct just before 11 p.m. on Saturday at the Hawthorne Suites off Poe Avenue.
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News Center 7 obtained the original 911 call asking police for help.
“This is 911, do you have an emergency?” a dispatcher asked.
“Yes, I do have an emergency here. I’m at the Hawthorne Suites,” the caller said.
Dispatchers sent officers to the hotel as the caller described what was happening.
“They’re upstairs, they’re upstairs. Building five, upstairs,” the caller said. “They’re fighting, I have a kid here, I’m not happy at all. You guys need to get here. I called the front desk; they don’t seem to give an (expletive).”
Upon arrival, officers found a woman who had apparently been asked to leave the hotel. She allegedly started struggling with officers.
Vandalia police said a man, who was with a group of people, also began fighting them.
The officers on scene dropped a county-wide call for help, otherwise known as a Signal 99. However, it was canceled not long after.
A woman staying at the hotel told News Center 7 that it was a scary situation.
“At the door of the actual unit, upstairs of that building, and on the stairs. And then they’d come down and then they’d go back up, it was, crazy,” Brenda Keller said.
Vandalia police said they are reviewing the case with prosecutors, hoping to have charges approved against the man and woman.
They declined to identify the pair, but News Center 7 looked at Montgomery County Jail records and found two people who were arrested Saturday night at the hotel.
India Trapps, 22, and Christian Thomas, 29, were both arrested at 7070 Poe Avenue and are booked on suspicion of assault.
News Center 7 will continue to follow this story.
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