DOG DUMPING: Warrants are being sought for a 28-year-old Battle Creek woman who Battle Creek police said Wednesday dumped two vicious pit bull terriers in a neighborhood. Animal Control and police officers were called at 8:57 a.m. Feb. 26 to the first block of Hannah Street. A resident said she watched a woman stop her car and open the door and let out two dogs before driving away. While the animal control officer was speaking to the witness, one of the dogs, a male, began to approach. Then the second dog, a female began to charge the officer and then both began to attack, trying to bite the officer. The officer had to use an asp and pepper spray to keep the dogs away. Three police officers also responded and one of the dogs was caught but the second ran. Later that day the second dog was found and captured in a shed at Riverview Recreation Center at 1990 E. Columbia Ave. Both dogs were taken to the Calhoun County Animal Shelter. Officials said the dogs are vicious and won't be placed for adoption. Charges are being brought against the woman for abandonment and allowing vicious dogs to run loose.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT: A 40-year-old Springfield man was arrested on a charge of aggravated felonious assault after Battle Creek police said he beat his girlfriend of four months. Officers were called at 3:11 p.m. Tuesday to East Emmett Street and East Edison Street for a report of a man and woman fighting. The woman, 28, said she was staying with her boyfriend at a motel when they began an argument about 11 a.m. and he jumped on her and began to punch her in the face and covered her mouth so she was unable to breath. They left to get cigarettes but the woman said she wasn't going to let him because he always steals them. He began driving fast and when he slowed and she attempted to leave the car he slammed on the brakes and she hit her head on the windshield. When they did stop she said he bit her on both arms and punched her in the head and kicked her in the stomach. He told police she stabbed him in the neck with a key and he pushed her to the ground in self defense.

WOMAN STRUCK: A woman, 25, said she was punched in the face by a man she didn't know. The woman said she was walking across the street in the first block of West VanBuren Street at 4:50 p.m. Tuesday when a man who was jogging past, punched her. She told police the man didn't say anything. She suffered a cut lip.

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