Crime & Safety
Cooking Grease, Toothpaste Used in Mableton Domestic Dispute
The incident occurred early Saturday.
Mableton residents Joe C. Bailey and Latoya Deneen Hampton got into an argument early Saturday.
A Cobb County criminal warrant does not mention how the argument started, only that it was intense.
Cobb police said as their three children listened in a bedroom, Bailey and Hampton didn't just hurl vulgarities at one another. Bailey allegedly poured cooking grease on Hampton. And Hampton allegedly poured toothpaste on Bailey.
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They were arrested Saturday on similar charges: one count of simple battery and one county of cruelty to children in the third degree.
Bailey was released from the Cobb County Adult Detention Center the same day on a $2,500 bond. Hampton was released Tuesday on a $2,500 bond.
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