Bail is set at $50,000 for a man accused of assaulting a woman, breaking her phone and threatening her with a knife in Centralia between May 11 and May 15. The man is also accused of kicking officers who arrested him shortly after midnight on May 16.
Charges against Ivan Wade Case, 30, of Toledo, were filed in Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday after officers with the Centralia Police Department responded to a report of a physical dispute in progress in the 1000 block of B Street just after 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, according to court documents and Centralia Police Department call logs.
Case reportedly fled the scene before officers arrived at the B Street address.
When questioned, the victim reported she was fighting with Case “because he was hiding a gas card in her purse that Ivan was demanding that she give him, because he is controlling of her,” according to court documents.
Case allegedly took the woman’s phone from her pocket while she was in the bathroom of the residence and blocked the door so she couldn’t leave. She “indicated that she asked Ivan to move, but that he would not let her leave and continued to make threatening motions as if he would punch her,” according to court documents.
He allegedly struck her in the arm and bumped her with his chest while keeping her trapped in the bathroom “for an extended period of time.”
The phone screen was “shattered” when officers arrived at the scene, and the victim had “numerous scratches, marks and bruises on (her) face and neck,” according to court documents.
When asked about her injuries, the woman reportedly indicated that a scratch on her face and a scratch on her wrist were from that day, but that the other marks were from a Saturday, May 11, incident.
In that incident, Case is accused of grabbing the woman around her throat “to keep her from screaming” then drove her from the B Street residence to Yard Birds, took a knife out of his pocket, grabbed her by the hair, put the blade of the knife to her face and threatened to kill her, according to court documents.
He also allegedly “socked her in the chin with his fist” on Saturday, with an officer noting the “mark was still visible” as of Wednesday night.
A witness informed officers she had photographed the injuries the victim received on Saturday and told officers one of the woman’s children told her “my mommy has to do exactly what he (Case) says or he beats her,” according to court documents.
Centralia officers reportedly located Case in an alley behind the B Street residence shortly after midnight on May 16.
Case reportedly “denied anything physical happened” during the dispute earlier that night.
When officers attempted to get Case into a patrol car, he allegedly “used passive resistance and resisted commands,” then “began kicking and banging to the point where law enforcement decided to put him in a WRAP device for their safety” after he finally got into the car.
Officers noted that they “struggled for more than 15 minutes to get him into the device,” alleging that Case kicked one of the arresting officers several times in the chest and was “combative, argumentative and attempted to be manipulative throughout,” according to court documents.
Case was booked into the Lewis County Jail at 4:20 a.m. on May 16, according to jail records.
He has since been charged with two counts of second-degree assault, domestic violence and one count each of fourth-degree assault, domestic violence; third-degree malicious mischief, domestic violence; unlawful imprisonment, domestic violence; third-degree assault and obstructing a law enforcement officer.
In addition to the assault case, Case is facing an unrelated felony theft of rental property charge that was filed in Lewis County Superior Court on March 22.
In that case, Case is accused of refusing to return a U-Haul van he rented on Feb. 15. He reportedly signed a contract renting the van for three days and had not returned it by March 4, according to court documents.
Bail in that case is set at $10,000 unsecured.
Arraignment hearings for both cases are scheduled for Thursday, May 23.
A non-contact order protecting the victim in the assault case is in place.
