Arrest made during domestic disturbance call
An arrest warrant accuses a rural Oconee man of assaulting a deputy sheriff who, along with a second officer, had gone to a Spy Mountain Road, Westminster home Sunday night on a domestic disturbance call. According to a sheriff’s office incident report, Matthew Dillard Fowler allegedly head-butted and shoulder-checked Deputy Hemingway after Fowler was handcuffed and led to the patrol vehicle. Besides assault on a police officer while resisting arrest, 27-year-old Fowler was charged with domestic violence. Deputy Hemingway said his body-worn camera was activated for the entire incident.