June 25, 2020
By News Director Jared Atha
A Thomas man was arrested and charged after he allegedly used a crowbar to break into a woman’s home.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Thomas Police received a call from a woman claiming a male subject was attempting to break into her home located in the 300 block of S. 3rd. During the phone call the woman would yell that the subject had made his way into the home. The officer reported that he could hear the male subject ask the woman who she was talking to before the phone hung up.
When officers arrived, they were informed that the subject, later identified as 40-year-old Matthew Grant Moore, had left the home. Later Moore was pulled over and placed into investigative detention while officers investigated the incident.
During an interview with police with the woman, she stated that Moore had allegedly used a crowbar to break into the home after she had ordered the subject to leave. She also stated that while making the phone call to the officer, it was Moore who took the phone and hung it up. Officers noted in the report that he observed various injuries on the woman. When asked if it was Moore who inflected the injuries, the woman told the officer that it was Moore who had allegedly abused her on separate occasions.
Moore was arrested and booked into the Custer County Jail and charged with 1st degree burglary, domestic abuse – assault and battery, trespassing after being forbidden, and disrupting an emergency telephone call.
Moore’s first court date is scheduled for July 8.
