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Officer describes violent scene in Frank Clark's hotel room
MARK SNYDER | DETROIT FREE PRESS | 5:54 pm EDT May 8, 2015
When Perkins Township police officer Martin Curran arrived at the Maui Sands hotel in Sandusky, Ohio, late Saturday, he wasn't sure what he would find.
Dispatch had received multiple calls, the first at 10:32 p.m., one for a woman passed out and another involving a domestic dispute.
What Curran came across getting out of his cruiser was Michigan football player Frank Clark in the hotel parking lot.
When Curran asked what was going on, Clark responded, according to a police report: "Not much, a disturbance," and added "you can call it what you want."
"Frank had an injury on his nose, wouldn't really elaborate what happened, said that he was there with his girlfriend and she was having some problems and he said look at my face and you see my face and you'll see her face," Curran said in a Sunday night interview with the Free Press. "And he said he didn't touch her."
Curran said he continued his discussion with Clark, asking about the reports of a domestic disturbance, and Clark began explaining himself.
According to the police report, Clark said: "I didn't do (expletive) to her, I didn't touch that woman, she is a woman."
Curran asked Clark how this incident started and he stated women "I don't know what they do, what they go through, I don't know what she is going through, I know she is going through some crazy fits, and she may be pregnant."
Based on the evidence gathered by Curran and a fellow officer arriving at the scene, they had a different assessment. They saw enough to arrest Clark at the scene, over his girlfriend's objections, placing the 6-foot-2, 277-pound Clark in handcuffs and recommending charges of two first-class misdemeanors, one for domestic violence and one for assault.
Clark, a senior defensive end from Cleveland, was taken to Erie County Jail, where he was to remain without bond at least until his 10:30 a.m. today hearing in Sandusky Municipal Court.
According to the police report, Clark, 21, lives with his girlfriend, Diamond Hurt, 20, in Ypsilanti.
After initially engaging Clark in the parking lot, Curran patted him down and assessed that Clark was intoxicated before placing him in the back of the patrol car with the other officer waiting with him.
That's when Curran entered the hotel and assessed the remnants of the disturbance and began interviewing witnesses.
When Curran approached the room, Hurt was awake.
"We went up the room, there was a damaged lamp on the table, a damaged lamp on the wall and she's got a large welt on the side of her cheek, she's got marks on her neck," Curran said. "She had what looked like rug burn on her one thigh. We have pictures of everything."
Based on interviews from various individuals, Curran pieced together the story that he shared with the Free Press and put in his police report.
According to Hurt, she and Clark began to argue while lying on the bed in their room at the Maui Sands Resort and Indoor Waterpark. She got angry, threw a TV remote control at him, and he responded by trying to restrain her on the bed. She told Curran that she tried to get loose by biting his nose. Then she said he pushed her head into the bed, they got off the bed and he punched her in the face, knocking her back and breaking a lamp. She stated that she threw an alarm clock at him as he prepared to leave the room.
Her two juvenile brothers offered more graphic accounts to Curran, pinning more blame on Clark. One of the brothers told police that Clark drank at least a fifth of Hennessy. Hurt underwent a portable breath test that measured .000%.
The brothers said they saw Clark hitting their sister and one said Clark had her against a wall, grabbing her by the throat, picking her off the ground and slamming her down.
Hurt's view was different when a sergeant on the scene asked about the red marks on her neck, saying Clark only grabbed her shirt and she fell down to the left side of the bed.
Noise from their altercation had drawn the attention of other hotel guests and eventually led police to investigate.
"We had people from other rooms that were witnesses to this," Curran said. "That's how this started, somebody in different room heard screaming and yelling, heard noises come out of the room, they thought something was going on and they opened up their door and little kids come running out of the hotel room that Frank was in and screaming Frank is … the witness came out basically saying, 'Frank is killing our sister.'
"They go over there and they knock on the door, they look inside and see this girl on the ground unconscious and they said that Frank is yelling and screaming at people and they call the front desk and the front desk, she sees the girl on the ground, the damage to the room and that's how we ended up getting called."
According to the police report, two other children, ages 3 and 5, were also in the room. Curran said they were not interviewed.
Curran eventually spoke directly to Hurt, who refused a trip to the hospital to be examined and did not want to press charges because, according to the report, "with what Frank has going on, she didn't want him arrested."
According to the report, Curran told her that "in Ohio when a domestic violence victim does not want to pursue a criminal charge against the offender and there are signs of physical violence, we are guided by law to charge that offender with domestic violence. I advised her Frank would be arrested, he would be incarcerated in jail, and he would be charged with domestic violence."
Curran told the Free Press that it was not unusual for victims to decline pressing charges.
According to the report, Clark was handcuffed and taken to the police station, where he was placed in a holding cell and photographed.
When the domestic charge was explained to Clark, Curran wrote this in his report: "Mr. Clark stated he did not touch Diamond and that her family was taking her side because they were family. I showed him a photograph of Diamond's face and he stated she received that injury by falling."
Clark was transported to the Erie County Jail and the incident report was filed at 11:39 p.m. Saturday, with the recommendation from Officer Brent Adams to Sandusky Municipal Court Judge Erich O'Brien, who advised no bond.
"We don't have domestics everyday out here but we do handle them," Curran said. "In our town there are 10-15 hotels on the strip out here and a lot of people come out here for vacation and sometimes people come out here and have a little bit more to drink than they should and sometimes we're dealing with residents under the same circumstances. Nothing different than what we normally come across
