Claudio Tino Martinez

WARSAW — A Warsaw man was recently arrested after battering a woman on New Year’s Day.

Claudio Tino Martinez, 26, 611 N. Park Ave., Warsaw, is charged with domestic battery with a child under 16 present and domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, both level 6 felonies.

On Jan. 1, an officer with the Warsaw Police Department went to a residence regarding a domestic battery report. The officer spoke with a woman at the residence who had dried blood on the left side of her face.

According to court documents, the woman said she had invited Martinez over to be there when the New Year’s ball dropped. Martinez then became upset with the woman because she had been drinking while a child was at the residence. The woman asked Martinez to leave and attempted to push him out the back door. Martinez struck the woman in the face with his fist and then grabbed her by the hair, dragging her across the floor and knocking over trash cans.

Martinez was booked in the Kosciusko County Jail on Jan. 14.