Man charged with beating wife

Police arrested a Nitro man accused of beating his wife at theirapartment after she told him she was leaving him.

Nitro Patrolman D.K. Richardson responded to the Main Avenueapartment Wednesday after a concerned neighbor called for help,according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.

When Richardson arrived at the complex, a man on the second floorof the apartment building was waving and gesturing to an apartmenton the first floor from which the officer could hear a man and womanscreaming at each other, police say.

The patrolman had approached the apartment's open front door andstarted to identify himself when a woman ran out.

She was crying, and blood from a cut on her nose was running downher face, the complaint stated.

The officer also noticed the hair on the back of her head was wetwith blood.

The woman, identified as Cindy Meadows, told police that herhusband of a year and a half, 25-year-old Ryan Scott Meadows, hadbeat her up and was still in the apartment.

Richardson found Ryan Meadows in the living room of the apartmentand asked him what happened. Meadows told the patrolman he and hiswife were arguing because she had returned from a week away and toldhim she was going to leave him, the complaint stated.

The husband told police the argument lasted about an hour and ahalf.

The woman told police that he became angry and then grabbed herand threw her around, police say. She also said he held her down andboth struck and kicked her several times, the complaint stated.

She said she managed to get away and ran outside, but he was ableto catch up to her and drag her back to the apartment, the reportstated.

A man in the upstairs apartment said the couple's argument awokehim, so he called police.

The man told police when he looked out his window he could seethe husband throwing the wife around, according to the report.

The man told the investigators he heard the man tell his wife hewas going to get her for leaving him, the complaint stated.

The officer noted blood on the back of the husband's hand butfound no injury on his body, according to the report.

Ryan Meadows was arrested and charged with domestic battery.

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