ROAD RAGE SHOOTING: An 18-year-old Battle Creek man was arrested after deputies from the Calhoun County Sheriff Department said he shot at another vehicle during a road rage confrontation. Deputies were called at 8:13 p.m. Saturday to the area of Goguac Street and North 21st Street in Springfield. Several callers said one vehicle was chasing another and shots were being fired. The victim also called 911 and said he was being followed and his vehicle had been hit by gunfire. Deputies said they located the suspect's vehicle a short distance away and the 18-year-old was arrested on charges of assault with intent to murder and weapons violations. Deputies said both drivers had been upset about a traffic issue in Battle Creek and it began a road rage incident. Battle Creek officers assisted. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the sheriff department at 269-964-3888.

GARAGE FIRE: Battle Creek firefighters said a fire Saturday caused heavy damage to an attached garage and the home of Merline Jones at 67 Avery Ave. Firefighters were called at 6:31 p.m. and found the garage on fire and that it was spreading to the house. The fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes. A vehicle also was damaged in the fire. No injuries were reported but the family had to leave and were staying with relatives, firefighters said. The cause remains under investigation.

SHOTS FIRED: Battle Creek police said no injuries were reported and nothing was apparently hit when shots were fired Friday night in the 100 block of South 22nd Street. Officers said they were called about 10:45 p.m. and believe about three shots were fired. Officers said three teenagers were seen running in the area and two cars were seen leaving but officers are not sure if any of those people were involved. Police did not find any shell casings or other evidence of the shooting.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: The following cases have been reported by the Battle Creek Police Department:

• A man, 43, was arrested after his girlfriend, 41, said she was assaulted in the 400 block of Meachem Road in Bedford Township. Battle Creek police were called at 4:58 a.m. Friday.

• A man, 49, was arrested and a warrant is being sought for his girlfriend, 27, after officers were called to the 100 block of West Goodale Ave. at 8:07 p.m. Saturday. The man said he had been bitten on the forearm and some windows of his house were broken by the woman. She told officers she had been at her son's birthday party and when she returned to her home the boyfriend became upset, complaining about the tight clothing she was wearing. She told him to worry about the clothes her daughters wore, not about what she was wearing. She said he then punched her in the head. The two began to fight and she said she was held on the ground and choked. She told officers she bit the man on the arm and threw an end table against the wall and broke the front windows before leaving. She was found walking on Roosevelt Avenue and was taken to Bronson Battle Creek by LifeCare Ambulance for treatment of cuts on her arms from breaking the windows. The man said the woman argued with him about relationship issues and began punching him. He said he held her to defend himself but was tired and could not remember how he was bitten.

SISTERS ARRESTED: Two sisters, ages 24 and 28, were arrested after a Battle Creek man, 32, said he was assaulted. The man said he was spending time with his child which has with the older woman but left her house on Freedom Lane with the child and about 8:40 p.m. Friday the two women arrived at his home on Stringham Road to take the child. He said they forced their way into his apartment, grabbing him and pushing him against the wall while he was holding the child. He put the child in another room and said then the younger woman sprayed him in the face with pepper spray. The women then left with the baby. Both women said they were pushed and hit by the man and the younger woman said she believed he was trying to push her off a balcony.

PURSUIT, TASER TAKEDOWN: A Battle Creek man, 32, was arrested on several charges after Battle Creek police said he refused to open his car door and then fled from officers. Police stopped his car about 2:47 a.m. Sunday for speeding 76 miles-per-hour in the a posted 45 mph zone on Morgan Road near Bynum Drive. The vehicle stopped on Billy Drive at the entrance to Creek Valley Mobile Home Park. The man was unable to provide a driver's license but would not roll down the window more than half way and refused to unlock the door of the car or get out. When the officer attempted to put his hand inside and unlock the door the man grabbed the officers hand and started the car. The officer broke the driver's door window as the man drove away. A second officer pursued in his patrol car and the man stopped on Tammy Drive but then tried to run, loosing a shoe. The officer used an electric stun gun and the man stopped and was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended license, resisting police, fleeing from police and for an outstanding warrant for a probation violation.

GUN FOUND: A man, 34, and his girlfriend, 40, were arrested after Battle Creek police stopped their car at 4:52 p.m. Saturday in the 400 block of West Michigan Avenue. Police said the car had an expired license plate. The man had an outstanding child support warrant and the woman a warrant for operating under the influence of liquor. Police said they found an unloaded gun under the driver's seat and said it was registered to the man's former girlfriend. They said the plate also was not only expired but belonged on another car. The man was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon.

DRUGS: Battle Creek police arrested a woman, 32, on a charge of possession of methamphetamine after a traffic stop near North McKinley Avenue and Sherman Road at 6:16 p.m. Saturday. Police said the woman had meth and several syringes in her purse.

FUNNY MONEY: A 33-year-old man from Climax was arrested on charges of passing a forged object and both he and his girlfriend also were arrested on charges of possession of methamphetamine. Officers were called at 2:56 a.m. Sunday from a worker at Taco Bell at 2169 W. Columbia Ave. about a man using a fake $100 to purchase food. Officers responded and saw the vehicle westbound on Columbia Avenue at a high speed. The car was stopped and both admitted they had been at the restaurant. The man said they left without their food or change because the car was running badly and they wanted to get it home. Police said the man had a second $100 bill marked as 'Motion Picture Use Only' in is wallet. He said he was paid for odd jobs and didn't know the bills were fake. Both were found to have methamphetamine.

TRAILER, GENERATOR STOLEN: Michigan State Police at Marshall are searching for a missing trailer and a combination welder and generator reported stolen Thursday in the 9000 block of West Drive South in Burlington Township. The trailer is a small, home-made brown farm trailer without a license plate and the generator is a blue Miller Bobcat with 75 feet of ground wire and 50 feet of welding electrodes. Anyone with information is asked to call the state police at 269-558-0500.

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