Excerpts from the Sweeney domestic violence 911 call (as reported by the Albany Times-Union) …
Sweeney’s wife, Gaia, placed the emergency call to a police dispatcher in Saratoga County at 12:55 a.m. on Dec. 2, according to the document.
“Female caller stating her husband is knocking her around the house,” a dispatcher wrote. “Then she stated `Here it comes, are you ready?’ and disconnected the call. Upon call-back, the husband stated no problem … asked the wife if she wanted to talk. Wife (caller) then got on the phone and stated that she’s fine and that she’s drunk. Caller sounded intoxicated. She advised that she was endangered for a moment, but everything is fine.”
A short time later officer Scott W. Gunsel arrived at the Sweeney home.
The police report obtained by the Times Union indicates that Scott W. Gunsel, a trooper assigned to Clifton Park, responded to the couple’s home along a cul-de-sac in a tidily kept neighborhood near the center of town. It is routine for police agencies to check residences from where 911 or other emergency calls have been made, even if callers say everything is fine or that the call was made in error.
Gunsel wrote in a blotter entry that he found the couple separated and calm when he arrived at the home that night. Under common police practice, the document lists Gaia Sweeney as a “victim” and Sweeney as a “suspect.”
“Complainant stated that she and husband got into verbal argument that turned a little physical by her being grabbed by the neck and pushed around the house,” Gunsel wrote in the narrative portion of the blotter entry, according to the document. “Suspect had scratches on face. Both parties refused medical attention. Complainant removed to friend’s house for the evening … refused any type of prosicution (sic) arrest.”
Is there some disconnect in this clause: “got into verbal argument that turned a little physical by her being grabbed by the neck and pushed around the house”?
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