GREENFIELD – A Greenfield man was arrested on Christmas Eve morning after he allegedly entered a woman’s room and assaulted her when she had an active protective order against him.
Kim Quintin West, 67, is being held at the Blaine County Jail on suspicion of felony sexual battery and misdemeanor counts of domestic abuse and violating a protective order.
According to court documents, the protective order was sought after a Dec. 14 incident during which West allegedly took the woman’s phone, pinned her to the couch and wrestled her to the floor. The sheriff’s office responded to that incident.
On Dec. 24, deputies were dispatched again to the 600 block of North Main Street in Greenfield. While responding to the call, a deputy passed Kim West leaving the residence in a vehicle, and pulled him over.
According to a probable cause statement, the deputy placed West in his patrol vehicle and went inside to interview the woman. She told the deputy that she’d woken up to see West standing beside her bed.
They began to argue, she said, before West crawled onto her, held her down and groped her.
The woman freed herself by pushing West away with her legs, she said, and called the sheriff’s office.
The deputy observed bruising on the woman’s legs. She told officials she thought West had a screwdriver in his hand in the bedroom, and deputies did find a screwdriver on the bed.
The deputy observed “fresh tool markings on the dead bolt” of the back door, as if it had been pried open. Deputies also found that West still had a key to the back door in his possession.
Later, at the Blaine County Jail, West allegedly admitted that he had carried the screwdriver and entered through the back door, but said he didn’t need the screwdriver because the deadbolt was not engaged.
West told deputies he had entered the house “to get his medication.”
The affidavit says that West also admitted to holding the woman down on the bed and fondling her. “I asked Kim if he had attempted to have intercourse,” the document says, “and he stated that he really wanted to but did not.”
West’s bond has been set at $30,000. His next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 5.