Staff Report
SYRACUSE — A Syracuse woman was recently arrested for allegedly battering a man.
Melanie Nicole Tolson, 33, 10690 N. Brown St., Syracuse, is charged with domestic battery with a child under 16 years of age present and domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, both level 6 felonies; and domestic battery, a class A misdemeanor.
On June 22, a Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a domestic complaint at a Syracuse residence. A man said Tolson smacked his face and neck. The deputy noticed abrasions on the man’s neck and chin.
According to court documents, the man also said Tolson spit in his face and smacked his cellphone out of his hand. A child was present during the altercation.
The man showed the deputy a video of Tolson making a spitting gesture toward him and smacking his phone out of his hand.
Tolson told the deputy she only shoved the man’s phone out of his hand and that the man smacked himself in the face.
Tolson was booked in the Kosciusko County Jail on June 22.
