By Liz Shepherd
InkFreeNews

Scott Michael Dingess

SYRACUSE — A North Manchester man was arrested after allegedly battering a woman four days after a no-contact order was filed.

Scott Michael Dingess, 37, 1633 E. 900N, North Manchester, is charged with domestic battery and invasion of privacy, both class A misdemeanors; domestic battery with a child under 16 present, a level 6 felony; and domestic battery with a sentence enhancement, a level 5 felony.

On Jan. 21, a Syracuse Police officer responded to a domestic battery at a residence. A woman said she was battered by Dingess. The officer noticed red marks on the woman’s left eye and redness on her left shoulder blade.

According to court documents, the woman said Dingess grabbed her by her hair, dragged her from the front door to the kitchen and knocked over a child. He then hit the woman’s left side of her face and shoulder blade area. The woman told the officer Dingess was still in the residence with the child.

After several attempts to get Dingess to answer the door, the officer forced the residence’s door open. Dingess grabbed the child and ran to a bedroom. He allegedly refused multiple requests to hand the child over, but eventually handed the child to a Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office deputy who responded to the scene.

Dingess told officers he had not seen or been around the woman all day.

At a Jan. 17 sentencing hearing in Wabash County for domestic battery, Dingess received a no-contact order prohibiting him from contacting the woman, who was also the victim in the Wabash County case.

For the Kosciusko County case, Dingess has already been arrested and released on his own recognizance. He has an initial hearing at 11 a.m. Feb. 16, in Kosciusko Superior Court One.