January assault leads to arrest warrant for Anadarko man

ANADARKO — A 31-year-old Caddo County man is wanted for allegations he brutally beat another man during a January fight.

The Caddo County District Court issued a felony arrest warrant Monday for Justin Lee Prince, of Anadarko, for a count of aggravated assault and battery, records indicate. The crime is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Anadarko Police Officer Jordan Tait was called shortly before 7 p.m. Jan. 30 to an apartment at 430 North Country Club regarding a fight and arrived to find blood on the ground and walls around the apartment’s doorway, the warrant affidavit states. He spoke with a woman who said a man she’s been in a relationship with had come to her apartment intoxicated and she let him lay down to sleep it off. She said Prince, who lives downstairs, came over and beat up the man who, afterward, walked off, according to Tait.

The officer found the injured and intoxicated man walking through the Caddo County Fairgrounds and saw his face was red and swollen and he was bleeding from the nose and lips and had suffered a broken tooth, the affidavit states.

The injured man said he’d been lying down when the woman began arguing with him about money and, at some point, Prince came to the door with another male and he and the woman began fighting the man, Tait stated. He said the woman hit him and put her hands around her throat. He said Prince punched him, and once he’d fallen to the ground, began kicking him in the face, according to the affidavit. He said the woman helped hold him on the ground while Prince assaulted him. He said his back and ribs hurt because he’d been hit and kicked in his ribs and kidney, the officer stated.

The woman said she’d gotten into an argument with the man and said he’d hit and choked her, Tait stated. She said Prince heard them fighting and came upstairs and got into a fight with the man and kicked the man in the head but denied being involved except to attempt to break it up, the affidavit states.

Prince, who was also intoxicated, claimed the other man had swung first so he hit him but denied kicking the man while he was down, according to the affidavit. The officers didn’t see any injuries to Prince.