MESA, Ariz. — A neighbor in Mesa called police after allegedly seeing a man drag a woman, identified later as his girlfriend, into an apartment as she screamed for help.
According to the Mesa Police Department, the neighbor was “so disturbed” by what they saw, they called police.
Officers arrived at the scene and heard the woman screaming for help inside the apartment, and then a loud crashing sound, police said.
Officers knocked on the door and a man, later identified as Hassan Lewis, opened it. He was asked to move aside, but instead "made his body wide" to make a physical barrier.
Lewis had to be removed from the doorway and was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, obstructing government operations and unlawful imprisonment, police said.
The police report states that Lewis was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the incident.
No other details about the woman were released.
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