UPDATE: The criminal case against defendant Elena Curtin was dismissed on April 6, 2015, the same week the case had been scheduled to go to trial. Read that story.

A Portland woman told police she "snapped" and beat another woman with a crowbar after discovering the person doing heroin in her bathroom and refusing to leave when asked, court documents say.



The 29-year-old sustained a cut behind one of her ears, and bruises to her forearms and hands in the beating. Elena Curtin, 22, was later arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of second-degree assault and menacing, according to a probable cause affidavit.



Curtin told a Portland police officer that she came home on Nov. 10 to find the woman shooting up in her bathroom, the affidavit said. Curtin said she repeatedly asked the woman to leave and began hitting her after the woman refused and swore at her, the affidavit said.



When Curtin's boyfriend intervened and took the crowbar away, the affidavit said, Curtin then took out a small knife and threatened him and the woman.



The boyfriend then got the knife away and locked Curtin and the other woman outside, the affidavit said.



It is not clear in the affidavit how Curtin and her boyfriend know the woman or how she got into the bathroom.



The woman was taken to OHSU Hospital for her injuries.



-- Everton Bailey Jr.