( L-R)- Cager Spates and Tyrone Green/Credit Brown Co and Jackson Co Sheriff's offices.

 

(KNZA)--Two Horton residents were arrested Wedneday evening following  a reported domestic incident in Brown County.

According to Brown County Sheriff John Merchant, dispatch received a call of a possible rolling domestic issue shortly after 8:00 involving a red Ford Explorer on K-20 Higway near Horton  The caller stated that the male driver was striking a female and forcing her into the vehicle.  

A deputy on routine patrol observed the vehicle on K-20 near Goldfinch Road and initiated a traffic stop.  

Following an investigation, the driver, 26-year-old Cager Spates, was arrested on charges of DUI and Obstruction. It was also learned that Spates had four warrants out of Douglas County  for criminal damage to property, battery and two counts of felony criminal threat, along with a warrant from Johnson County for failure to appear.

A passenger in the vehicle, 25-year-old Tyrone Green, was also arrested on warrants from Jackson County and the state of Nebraska.  

Green was transported to the Jackson county line, where a Jackson County deputy then transported him to the Jackson County Jail.

Spates was booked into the Brown County Jail.

The Kansas Highway Patrol assisted in the incident.