Albany Police Department investigates assault reports

ALBANY — Among the incidents responded to by the Albany Police Department on Sunday included two aggravated assaults, both of which police reports said resulted in the victims spending part of their weekend at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

A report from the APD said officers responded to Phoebe shortly after 11:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they made contact with the victim, Kyle Ralston, who said he was leaving his new residence on the 1200 block of Maryland Drive headed northbound on the 900 block of North Slappey Boulevard when he heard an unknown man talking to him from behind saying, “Hey, let me talk to you.”

The report said Ralston indicated he is new to Albany, so he did not respond to the man behind him. Ralston mentioned while walking that the man grabbed him and starting attacking him with a black knife.

“Ralston advised while he was on the ground fighting the male off him the male cut his right wrist, made his way on top of him, and stabbed him in his neck (lower right side),” the report’s narrative said. “Ralston indicated he was then able to get away and run back to his residence where his landlord advised him to go to the hospital for treatment.”

Officers said in the report that the doctors treating Ralston’s wounds said nothing serious was damaged in his neck and he would be released within a couple of hours. He described the attacker as short with a full beard, mid-length white hair and baggy pants.

The APD also responded to an aggravated assault report, which was also labeled a family violence and criminal damage case, at around 6:20 a.m. on the first block of Dobbs Drive. The report indicated the victim was injured by a vehicle.

Officers made contact with Breanna Sanders, who said she and her babies’ father, Dwayne Roberts, got into an argument. Roberts left her residence Saturday night, and was expected to return home Sunday morning. Sanders was able to determine where he was, and when she arrived there, she noticed the vehicle Roberts was driving parked on the roadway.

The report said Sanders stated she took a knife and cut a hole into all four tires, flattening them. She said she made contact with Roberts, who was inside the residence. They got into a verbal argument, and Sanders walked outside toward the vehicle she was driving. She stated Roberts started to hit the window with his hand and head, and that he busted the front driver-side window.

Sanders advised she was attempting to leave the residence and Roberts jumped onto the hood of the vehicle. She said she backed the vehicle up, stopped and started to drive away. Sanders said Roberts fell off the vehicle and was injured, the report said.

The report said officers spoke with Roberts inside the ambulance, and he would not answer when asked if he was hit by the vehicle Sanders was driving.

“Dwayne would change the topic when I would ask questions about how he was injured. I asked Dwayne ‘how did the front driver-side window on the vehicle Sander’s was driving get damaged’. Dwayne would not answer. Dwayne was being very uncooperative,” the report’s narrative said.

Roberts said his girlfriend lives at the address in which the incident took place, and that the vehicle he was driving belonged to Sunbelt Ford where he works as a mechanic. He stated he got permission to test drive the vehicle over the weekend from a manager.

The service manager at the dealership confirmed his employment there, but was unaware Roberts took the vehicle home and requested it be towed, the report said.

Roberts’ girlfriend said he came to her residence and stayed the night with her. The girlfriend stated she woke up to her roommate yelling at someone. She then said Sanders asked about Roberts’ whereabouts, and Sanders walked into her bedroom and started to punch him in the face yelling at him to wake up. The girlfriend said Roberts woke up and he and Sanders started to argue.

She said Roberts and Sanders walked outside, and that Sanders got into her vehicle. She said Roberts was in front of her vehicle, and that Sanders put the vehicle in drive and ran over Roberts before speeding off and stopping the vehicle down the road.

The girlfriend said Roberts was seriously injured, and that she helped him off the ground and put him in the vehicle he was driving. The girlfriend said she walked to Sanders and said she was calling the police, and Sanders came back and she and Roberts were talking and trying to come up with a story on how Roberts got injured while first responders were enroute, the report said.

The girlfriend and her roommate, who told officers she saw Roberts on the ground, refused to provide a written statement. The report said Sanders was transported to the APD Law Enforcement Center.

The report said Roberts was transported to Phoebe. A spokeswoman for the hospital said Monday afternoon that there was no information on his condition.

The report said the case is active and remains under investigation.