A Haines man has been released on bail and with an ankle monitor after police say he attacked his brother at an apartment on Main Street.
Police responded to a call from another relative asking for an officer to respond to a fight between the two brothers.
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Officer Travis Russell and Chief Jimmy Yoakum responded and found the older brother on Main Street where he told them he had asked to spend time in his younger brother’s apartment and had been rebuffed. He accused his younger brother of spitting on him, according to a police report.
According to charging documents, police went upstairs and viewed multiple videos of the two brothers fighting in the residence – including the younger one appearing to hit the older with a baseball bat. It is not clear how those videos were obtained.
Police determined that the older brother was the primary physical aggressor and charged him with fourth degree assault and burglary.
He was arrested just after 10 p.m. on Saturday and taken to get medical treatment. Then, at about 1 a.m. as Russell was taking him to the Haines Rural Jail Facility, the man – whose arm was handcuffed to a belt loop – pulled away from Russell and ran away. He was then charged with misdemeanor escape and resisting arrest.
The man was arraigned on Sunday morning according to police documents. There he was released on a $1,000 bail with GPS monitoring. He was also ordered to have no contact with his younger brother.
If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $100,000 on the felony burglary charge. Officers justified the burglary charge saying he had entered the dwelling with the intent to commit a crime. The other three charges are misdemeanors which carry possible sentences of up to a year in prison and up to $25,000 in fines – though that time and those amounts can change based on factors like previous convictions, or mitigating circumstances.