Neighbour dispute leads to mallet fight, wrestling match

A dispute between neighbours blew up into an altercation with a rubber mallet in a Stoney Creek apartment complex Tuesday morning, police say.

Officers were called to an apartment building on Catalina Drive around 10:45 a.m., when reported a disturbance.

According to police, an altercation broke out between two tenants who were living in apartments above each other who were involved in an ongoing neighbour dispute.

On this particular morning, one of the men went to the other’s apartment and started banging on the front door with a rubber mallet, police say. When the man who was living there opened up, the first man then lifted the mallet as if he was going to hit him.

The victim blocked the blow, police say, and wrestled the other man to the ground and held him there until police showed up. Officers then arrested the man with the mallet “without incident.”

Both men ended up with minor injuries while they were wrestling. A 49-year-old Hamilton man was charged with assault with a weapon. He was released on a promise to appear.