AFFIDAVIT OF COMPLAINT CONTINUATION TIME [TONGTENCY om oT ERR | MONTH [BAY OCR sso [en [vain [oe |" | comm [= eoooreses | [ DEFENDANTS LASTRANE TST MA SURGE ALIASNIEXN NES } { MATHIS ‘GREGORY aR | ON 4-28-2016, AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00 PM I RESPONDED TO SONIC AT 1340 25TH STREET IN REFERENCE TO BACKING UP THE SHERIFF ERIC WATSON ON A DOMESTIC CALL. UPON MY ARRIVAL, | HELPED SUBDUE A LARGE BLACK MALE THAT WAS FIGHTING MULTIPLE OFFICERS ON THE SCENE. THE COMBATIVE BLACK MALE WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS MR. GREGORY MATHIS JR. ACCORDING TO MANY WITNESSES ON SCENE, MR. MATHIS' AND HIS GIRLFRIEND, IDENTIFIED AS MRS. INDIA DURDEN, WERE TRAVELING EAST ON 25TH STREET. THE VEHICLE STOPPED AND MRS. DURDEN STARTED. WALKING ACROSS 25TH STREET. MR. MATHIS THEN WENT TO PEERLESS ROAD AND TURNED ‘AROUND AND WENT BACK TO THE SONIC ON 25TH STREET AND CONFRONTED MRS. DURDEN "AGAIN, YELLING AT HER TO GET BACK IN THE CAR. MRS. DURDEN REFUSED TO GET INTO THE CAR AND MR. MATHIS TRIED TO PHYSICAL PLACE MRS. DURDEN IN THE VEHICLE. ‘SHERIFF ERIC WATSON OBSERVED ALL OF THIS AND FOLLOWED MR MATHIS DOWN 25TH STREET (AND THEN BACK TO THE SONIC PARKING LOT. SHERIFF ERIC WATSON MADE CONTACT WITH MR. MATHIS AND IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS THE SHERIFF OF BRADLEY COUNTY. SHERIFF WATSON ASKED MR. MATHIS TO SPEAK WITH HIM ON WHAT WAS GOING ON AND AT THAT POINT MR. MATHIS TOLD HIM TO GET OUT OF HERE THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, THEN HIT SHERIFF WATSON IN THE CHEST AND RIBS MULTIPLE TIMES. SHERIFF WATSON AND A BYSTANDER WERE ABLE TO TAKE MR. MATHIS TO THE GROUND, BUT FOR ONLY A BRIEF PERIOD BEFORE MR. MATHIS WAS ABLE TO GET BACK TO HIS FEET. MR. MATHIS BIT ‘SHERIFF WATSON ON HIS RIBS AND THEN STARTED CHOKING HIM WITH HIS TIE. TWO CLEVELAND CITY OFFICERS, JUSTIN WALKER AND CHRIS ALLEN, RESPONDED TO THE SCENE ‘AND STARTED TO SUBDUE MR. MATHIS. MR. MATHIS WAS ABLE TO BREAK OFFICER ALLEN'S NOSE WITH HIS ELBOW DURING THE FIGHT AND OFFICER WALKER RECEIVED SEVERAL ‘SCRAPES AND CUTS. MR. MATHIS WAS CUFFED AND CONTINUED TO BE COMBATIVE WITH ‘OFFICERS UNTIL WE WERE ABLE TO RESTRAIN HIM IN LEG SHACKLES. | SPOKE WITH MR. MATHIS AND HE HAD A STRONG ODOR OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMING FROM HIS PERSON. | ASKED MR. MATHIS IF HE HAD GNY ALCOHOL TO DRINK TODAY AND HE STATED YES, BUT. NOT ENOUGH. SHERIFF WATSON AND OFFICER CHRIS ALLEN WERE TRANSPORTED BY EMS TO THE HOSPITAL FOR THERE INJURIES. MR. MATHIS WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DUI, [AGGRAVATED ASSAULT X2, AND SIMPLE ASSAULT. DEPUTIES COLLECTED SEVERAL WITNESS STATEMENTS FROM MUTIPLE WITNESSES ON SCENE. MR. MATHIS WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BRADLEY COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER WITHOUT INCIDENT. Rev 12015