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Charges in Skateboard Attack

(La Porte County, IN) - Charges have been filed in connection with injuries from being attacked with a skateboard. Dandre Lehman, 24, is charged with Battery and other counts in La Porte Circuit Court.

 

According to court documents, Lehman on March 21st went inside a home uninvited at 505 Park Street before he allegedly began hitting a man and woman on a couch with a skateboard. The two men then began fighting in the living room.

 

Lehman left, but not until breaking a cellphone belonging to one of the victims. A short time later, police went to Lehman’s home across the tracks in the 300 block of Pulaski Street and took him into custody.

 

The victims sustained minor injuries that included scratches on the forehead and arm. The female victim, the following day, was trying to drive home from a bar but wound up traveling across a cornfield and crashing into a backyard.

 

Police said her blood alcohol level was close to four times the legal limit and she also had drugs on her possession.

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