A caregiver for a mentally disabled man allegedly hit him twice in the head with a baseball bat over a disagreement about a friend, according to a Friday police report.

Police responded to a disturbance in the 1800 block of North Ruddell Street about 6:25 p.m. Friday. They found a seriously injured man sitting on the couch with a large laceration on his head.

Two other men were in the apartment. They said they all lived there. Two of the men are mentally disabled, and the other two are caregivers, according to the report. The caregivers work for a private company.

Police found a bloody baseball bat in the bathroom. Detectives learned where the suspect had gone and picked him up there with no trouble.

The caregiver told detectives he was angry when his client tried to befriend a visitor to the apartment. He said he hit him in the head with a baseball bat, and then hit him a second time when he didn’t appear to have taken the first blow seriously enough, according to the police report.

Danny Alfred Padilla, 47, was in Denton County Jail on Monday charged with aggravated assault. Bail was set at $50,000. The victim remained in the critical care unit at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth.

 

Other reports

600 block of East Hickory Street — Police arrested a woman on outstanding warrants Friday and discovered that she had several packages that had been obtained using credit card numbers she had no cards for.

Detectives investigated and learned that the numbers be­longed to a credit card belonging to someone else. The victim, when located, said he had no idea someone was using his credit card number and that he had not given anyone permission to use it.

 

Roundup

From 7 a.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Monday:

* Denton police responded to 737 calls for service and officer-initiated calls, including seven cases of possession of marijuana, four cases of possession of a controlled substance, two cases of possession of drug paraphernalia, three cases of possession of a dangerous drug, two cases of failure to identify as a fugitive from justice, one case of resisting arrest, one report of criminal trespass, 16 thefts, five burglaries, one aggravated robbery, one case of evading detention, one credit card abuse, one debit card abuse, one identity theft, two deceased persons, one case of interfering with an emergency call, four assaults and one aggravated assault.

* Denton County sheriff’s dispatchers handled 760 calls for service and officer-initiated calls. A total of 116 people were booked into county jail. Deputies took reports of three burglaries, one unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, five thefts, one forgery, four vehicle burglaries, one case of marijuana possession, one case of unlawfully carrying a weapon, one threat, two assaults and two animal complaints.

* Denton firefighters res­ponded to 47 medical calls, three alarms, one false alarm, two requests to assist an invalid, five traffic accidents, four smoke investigations, one steam investigation, two trash fires, four other fires, one grassfire and one rescue.

Oak Point firefighters res­ponded to one gas leak, one fire and two medical calls.

Sanger firefighters responded to six medical calls, three traffic accidents, one request to unlock a vehicle, two grassfires and one request for mutual aid.

Corinth firefighters responded to 10 medical calls, one accident, one fire, one request to unlock a vehicle and one grassfire.

Krum firefighters responded to two traffic accidents, one medical call, one suicide attempt and one grassfire.

Aubrey firefighters responded to seven medical calls, one alarm and one illegal burn.

Double Oak firefighters res­ponded to one suicide attempt and one vehicle fire.

Argyle firefighters responded to one traffic accident, five medical calls, one fire, one water main break and one alarm.

Hickory Creek firefighters responded to one traffic accident.

Pilot Point firefighters res­ponded to three medical calls and one request to unlock a vehicle.

Ponder firefighters responded to one traffic accident.

DONNA FIELDER can be reached at 940-566-6885. Her e-mail address is dfielder@dentonrc.com .

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