One arrested after wild apartment complex incident

Dwayne Doolin

A 31-year-old Indianapolis man, who has found himself in trouble with local authorities four times since Saturday, was arrested Tuesday afternoon following an unusual incident on Greencastle’s south side.

Dwayne Doolin, who has been staying in Greencastle but has an Indianapolis address, was arrested and lodged in the Putnam County Jail on charges of residential entry and intimidation after reportedly trying to force his way into the apartment of a resident at Country Place Apartments, 51 Woodhaven Drive.

Doolin, who was released from prison in February after serving time for a 2014 conviction in a Greencastle City Police robbery case, was apparently trying to force himself into the residence, Greencastle Sgt. Ed Wilson told the Banner Graphic, when the woman chased him away with a baseball bat.

“She said she was not putting up with his nonsense, and went after him with a baseball bat and chased him out,” Wilson said.

That’s when a good samaritan, reportedly witnessing from the parking lot what had been going on between Doolin and the woman, punched Doolin in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Doolin reportedly got up, made a verbal threat to return and do physical harm to the woman, got in a vehicle and fled the scene, Sgt. Wilson reported.

The unknown other man also fled the scene in his own vehicle.

The 1:53 p.m. incident, meanwhile, was initially dispatched as a fight with baseball bats and knives involving at least five persons.

“We roll up, and there’s all these people pointing in the direction that he sped away,” Wilson said, adding that police were able to catch up to Doolin and make a traffic stop.

As for the fight with knives and baseball bats, Wilson said, “I really don’t believe that was a fact. There was a knife located at the scene but nobody claimed it. It might have been displayed but nobody was hurt.”

Wilson said the incident turned out to be “a big to-do about not too much.”

The veteran police officer noted that when local authorities -- including GPD officers, Putnam County Sheriff’s deputies and an Indiana Conservation officer -- arrived at the apartment complex, “there were 10-15 people standing out there ... it’s really hard to determine who’s who and who was involved.”

Doolin definitely was, as he had been the night before when the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department reportedly detained him with “a large amount of methamphetamine,” Wilson said.

He noted that the suspect was taken to the hospital Monday night and was somehow discharged before a warrant for his arrest could be obtained.

GPD, he said, “dealt with him yesterday (Monday) on a nonsense issue,” while on Saturday he was also stopped by Greencastle officers on a possession of marijuana charge as well as for speeding (64 mph on South Jackson Street).

Doolin was taken initially to Putnam County Hospital Tuesday afternoon for treatment of a slight facial injury administered by the unidentified man in the parking lot. He was then lodged in the local jail.