Amanda Marie Baldwin was charged Tuesday, July 13, in Crow Wing County District Courtroom in Brainerd with felony second-degree assault with a harmful weapon and two misdemeanors of home assault to trigger bodily hurt and property harm. Based on court docket paperwork, she additionally was charged in Could for home assault for allegedly going after the identical sufferer with two kitchen knives and slashing his tires.
Based on the felony grievance, Brainerd police have been known as simply earlier than 10 p.m. July 11 to a report of a home assault at a residence on Seventh Avenue Northeast in Brainerd. The complainant reported Baldwin was upset and breaking issues. He reported he was struck with a tire iron and he or she smashed the home windows of his truck.
Officers arrived on scene and commenced talking with the complainant. Earlier within the day, the complainant grounded Baldwin’s daughter and that made her upset, he advised police. A verbal argument ensued and the person mentioned he went into the yard of his residence to get away from her as she was yelling and screaming at him.
The sufferer indicated he had safety cameras overlaying the yard of his residence and confirmed the officer the footage. On the video, it confirmed the sufferer going into the yard and sitting down in a garden chair. Baldwin continued to yell at him from out of view of the safety digital camera. The sufferer reported Baldwin had been screaming at him by way of an open window within the home. The officer might hear Baldwin calling the sufferer a derogatory identify and making feedback about how horrible of a father he’s, the grievance said.
Shortly after, the officer noticed Baldwin seem into the panel of view of the digital camera. The sufferer mentioned in her rage, Baldwin crawled out of a home window to strategy him. She picked up a backyard hose and swung it at him however didn’t make contact. Baldwin then picked up an object the sufferer described as a tire iron and struck the sufferer within the foot. The officer noticed the person fall out of his chair as he screamed loudly in ache, the grievance said. Baldwin then ran away. All through the video, the officer might hear Baldwin making feedback about killing the sufferer.
The sufferer left the residence and when he returned, he discovered his truck windshield was smashed and he believed Baldwin did it. Baldwin grew to become agitated when the sufferer returned and smashed out the remainder of his truck home windows, he mentioned. That is when the sufferer known as regulation enforcement.
Baldwin was launched from jail on her personal recognizance and should observe circumstances to incorporate making all future court docket hearings, not getting into any bar or liquor institutions, not possessing any firearms or harmful weapons and never utilizing any alcohol or managed substances.
Her subsequent court docket listening to was scheduled July 21, however was modified to Sept. 7 to trace with different energetic instances for Baldwin, as requested by her public defender. Based on a July 13 letter from her public defender to the district choose, Baldwin faces costs in various different instances:
Baldwin was charged Could 26 with felony second-degree assault with a harmful weapon and two misdemeanors of home assault to trigger bodily hurt and property harm in opposition to the identical sufferer.
Baldwin was charged April 16 with two misdemeanors of home assault and disorderly conduct concerning the identical sufferer. The grievance said they have been yelling at one another after which Baldwin tried to smash his automobile home windows with a 2-by-4 board. They then allegedly acquired right into a scuffle and ended up wrestling on the bottom. The person denied something bodily befell.
Baldwin was in a automobile crash June 2, 2020, whereas beneath the affect of prescription drugs and he or she shouldn’t have been driving. She was cited for careless driving and for not carrying proof of insurance coverage whereas working a automobile.
