Suspect still at large for assault at downtown bar
Mount Pleasant Police are currently searching for a 31-year-old Mount Pleasant male responsible for assault and battery Sunday outside the Bird Bar & Grill.
MPPD Information Officer Dave Sabuda said it started with an exchange of words inside the 223 S. Main St. location.
The male suspect had a problem with a 27-year-old female, who previously served a supervisory role over him, Sabuda said.
The exchange of words took place when the male suspect confronted the female at the bar. The two then went their separate ways, he said.
The female, who was with a 27-year-old male friend, left the bar and ran into the suspect outside on Main Street. Once the suspect saw the female, he punched her in the face, Sabuda said.
"He was saying, 'you don't have any power over me,'" he said.
After the female was assaulted, her male friend tried to intervene and was punched in the back of the head by an suspect's accomplice, 31-year-old Carson Dale Conley of Mount Pleasant.
Sabuda said at that point, both suspects took off running and were observed by police patrolling the area. Conley was arrested at the scene on a parole detainer in addition to the assault and battery charges.
He was arraigned Monday and remains lodged in the Isabella County Jail on $5,010 bond.
Sabuda declined to release the name of the other male suspect because he has not been arrested or arraigned, but said a warrant for his assault and battery charge has been requested.
"We'll get him," Sabuda said. "He is local and is someone known to officers."
Assault and battery is punishable with up to 93 days in jail and a $500 fine.
Sabuda said the incident had few witnesses, and the ones that did witness the crime were friends of the suspects.
According to documents from the Michigan Department of Corrections Web site, Conley has previously served time in prison for two sentences of unlawfully driving away in a vehicle, fleeing a police officer and second degree home invasion.
Assaults and batteries are not uncommon around bars at night, Sabuda said.
"We take several (assault and batteries) a week," he said.
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