IC transient headbutts squad car after arrest

Hunter
10/4/19

A transient Iowa City man faces a host of charges after assaulting his girlfriend Thursday afternoon.

Officers responded to a report of a fight at the corner of Bowery and Van Buren at about 1:30pm, when a female victim accused 37-year-old Quinn Brown of assaulting her. She provided authorities with a clothing description and the direction he was heading on foot. The arriving officers found Brown at Bowery and Gilbert streets.

The woman alleged that they were at a friend’s house when Brown wanted to go with him to Walmart, but she didn’t want to go because of his level of intoxication. Brown allegedly grabbed her and pulled her toward the door but she resisted. After she thought Brown had left, she walked outside but he hit her from behind on the right side of her head. She immediately called police and told them that her eye hurt as a result of the altercation.

When they confronted Brown, he had bloodshot watery eyes, slurred speech, a strong odor of alcoholic beverages and an open bottle of vodka in his possession. A continued search located a glass pipe with residue and steel wool in his backpack. Brown refused to identify himself although the victim had named him when she called in. He was resistant during arrest, pulling away from officers and yelling. He had to be assisted to a nearby squad car, where he headbutted the hood of the vehicle. Officers say he also headbutted the side of a different squad car while parked in the sally port of the county jail.

Officers estimated damage to the hood at $200.

Brown is charged with domestic assault causing injury, public intoxication, interference with official acts, 5th degree criminal mischief, and possession of drug paraphernalia. If convicted on all counts, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 16 months in jail.