KNOX CO. – A Vincennes man is facing domestic battery and other charges after the Knox County Central Dispatch received an iPhone crash alert on South Vieck Road at 9:19 p.m. on Saturday, August 3.
When deputies arrived, police found no accident.
By 9:34 p.m., deputies located the iPhone along the road, but no vehicles were nearby. Using the phone’s information, dispatch identified the owner and informed her that her phone was at the jail.
The female phone owner went to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office to reclaim her phone. While there, deputies noticed injuries on her face and, after further inquiry, discovered she had been a victim of domestic violence.
She reported that during an argument with her ex-boyfriend, 27-year-old Benjamin M. Youngren of Vincennes demanded her phone. When she refused, he struck her, took the phone, and threw it out of the moving vehicle, triggering the crash detection feature.
Deputies arrested Youngren on charges of domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 5 felony, interference in reporting a crime, a Class A misdemeanor, and invasion of privacy, a Class A misdemeanor. He is being held on a 10,000 cash-only bond.
