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The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials. Individuals named as arrested and/or charged with crimes in this report are presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.

Assault

• Gary Lee Broeke, 50, of Fairbanks, was charged with three counts of fourth-degree assault after three women living with him said Broeke assaulted them following a confrontation early Wednesday morning.

The women said Broeke had been drinking and became angry about one of them living there. He allegedly made threatening comments, shoved one woman into another, and chased one of them around when she tried to call police, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. Another woman said Broeke slapped her.

They eventually made their way to the nearby Safeway on College Road to call authorities. Broeke was also charged with interfering with the report of a crime involving domestic violence.

• Carl Dutton Ransom, 24, of Fairbanks, was charged with fourth-degree assault after his girlfriend said he punched her in the ear and grabbed her by the arm Tuesday.

Burglary

A laptop was reported stolen Wednesday night from an apartment in the 100 block of 10th Avenue.

DUI

• Marthaann Rochelle Arabie, 21, of North Pole, was charged with driving under the influence after Fairbanks police received a report early Wednesday morning that Arabie had driven her on the yard of a Seventh Avenue residence and knocked over trash containers.

Arabie failed two field sobriety tests but refused any other tests. She was also charged with refusal to submit to a chemical test.

• James Francis Goard, 59, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after Alaska State Troopers received a complaint Tuesday about someone driving excessively slowly on University Avenue. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.181.

• Victor Rinear, 44, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers spotted him fail to properly use his signal Tuesday on Chean Hot Springs Road near Swampyhollow Road. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.098.

• William R. Slater Jr., 29, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after Fairbanks police responded to a report of a vehicle in a ditch early Wednesday morning on Goldstream Road near Ballaine Road. Slater initially admitted driving, but when an officer began to question him about drinking he said “the girls” were driving but left after driving into the ditch, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.216, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 to operate a motor vehicle. Slater was also charged with driving with a suspended license.

Theft

A woman reported the back window of her vehicle was smashed in while it was parked at Pioneer Park late Wednesday night. The vandal made off with her purse.