Local woman arrested after reporting abuse; police say she was the aggressor

AMMON — A local woman reported domestic violence on Saturday, but after deputies arrived and discovered she allegedly attacked a man with scissors, she was the one who was arrested.

Serina Weeks, 42, is charged with felony aggravated battery.

EastIdahoNews.com reached out to Weeks’ attorney, Kelly Mallard, who says he is aiming to prove his clients innocence in court.

Bonneville County sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in Ammon about 11:57 p.m. on a report of a domestic violence incident, a deputy’s report states. When they arrived, the report says Weeks identified herself as the victim and had “multiple lacerations and blood on her face and body.”

Deputies say Weeks told them she and a man had attended an event together that night before returning to her home around 11 p.m. or 11:30 p.m. She said the two began arguing over clothes that the man had purchased for her, and then claimed the man tried to take the clothes back and started hitting her.

Weeks said that she grabbed scissors and “told him she would cut the clothes if he tried to take them,” the report states.

Weeks told deputies that the man then punched her multiple times in the face and began “throwing her around the residence,” according to the report. She also told deputies she had been thrown and “dragged by her hair.” The deputies reported that Weeks was “visibly shaking and crying.”

Weeks told deputies the man did not live at her home and had left for a relative’s house before deputies arrived.

The deputies decided to go to the relative’s house to try and find the man, but on their way there Weeks made another call to emergency dispatchers. Court documents say she reported that the man had returned to her home, assaulted her again, and then left in a silver or gold sedan.

When the deputies arrived back at Weeks’ residence, other deputies had a man detained and were questioning him about what had happened.

According to the man, he and Weeks had returned from the event and started arguing in the car. When they got to her home, he said Weeks stated she wanted to go to a bar but he wanted to go to bed.

The man claimed he grabbed his jersey and began to leave the house, but “Weeks grabbed scissors and said she would cut it up,” the report states.

According to deputy reports, the man stated that Weeks began cutting him with the scissors, injuring his arm, back and leg. The man told the officers he was acting in self-defense because Weeks had a weapon.

When asked if she cut the man, deputies say Weeks told them she was holding the clothes and “snipping at them” with scissors while the man was “flinging her around and hitting her.”

She reportedly told deputies that she closed her eyes during the assault and did not intentionally cut the man. The court documents state that she also said she lost the scissors during the struggle and did not know where they were.

Officials “determined that while Weeks sustained injuries from being punched and dragged, she escalated the situation by holding scissors while fighting over clothing with (the man),” the report states. Deputies also say the man sustained “multiple deep lacerations consistent with scissor wounds.”

Weeks was then put under arrest and booked into the Bonneville County Jail on a $25,000 bond. She was later released on her “own recognizance,” charges state.

The man was not charged for this incident.

Weeks is expected to appear for a preliminary hearing on June 17. If convicted, she could face up to 15 years in prison.

Though Weeks has been charged with these crimes, it does not necessarily mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed innocent until they are proven guilty.