A Dallas officer arrested on a family violence charge over the weekend tried to prevent his girlfriend from calling police, court records show.

Officer Richard Council, a northwest patrol officer who has been with the Dallas Police Department for three years, faces misdemeanor charges of family violence and interference with an emergency call.

The 30-year-old officer is on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation and could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

His arrest warrant affidavit says a bystander called 911 from the 6000 block of Belt Line Road about 4 a.m. Saturday to report a disturbance outside an apartment building and a woman running in the street, screaming.

Officers found a woman crying "hysterically" at the bottom of the stairs. She told them Council went through her phone and became upset with her after finding that she had been talking to other men.

The woman told police that Council, her boyfriend of three years, was also upset with her because she refused to have sex with him, the affidavit says.

Officers asked multiple times whether she was physically assaulted and she said no, the affidavit says.

She said she wanted Council to leave her apartment, so police asked the officer to leave and he did.

But an hour later, police say, Council returned to her apartment and threatened to shoot himself. Police were called back to the apartment.

This time, the girlfriend gave police more information about what had happened earlier in the morning. She said she and Council had been drinking at a bar before returning to her apartment. She said her refusal to have sex with Council led to an argument and he took her keys from her.

When she tried to call police, she said, Council grabbed her phone and left the apartment. He returned half an hour later, upset because she had been talking to other men, and left her keys and phone outside her apartment.

Council was waiting for her when she went outside to get the items, his affidavit said. She closed the door on him and locked it, she said, but he kicked it in and took her phone again to keep her from calling for help.

The woman managed to get outside and scream for someone to call police.

Police wrote in Council's arrest warrant affidavit that they arrested him "to prevent further acts of family violence from occurring."

He was released from the Dallas County jail about midnight Saturday after posting bond.