Police arrested a Bloomington man Wednesday afternoon after he was injured in a Marsh Supermarket parking lot on the east side of town while allegedly trying to keep his wife in her car.
Seth Stridel, 36, is charged with criminal confinement, a felony.
Officers responded at about 2:10 p.m. to the grocery store at 123 S. Kingston Dr. after a report of a man being struck by a woman's car, Bloomington Police Department Lt. John Kovach said. They found Stridel standing in front of his wife's gray SUV. He had an abrasion to his knee, but was otherwise unharmed and declined medical attention.
Stridel told police he and his wife had gotten into a fight the night before, and she kicked him out of their home, Kovach said. They planned to meet in the parking lot.
When he approached her, she accelerated the car and hit him with the front bumper, he told police. Then he changed his story and said she'd struck him with the side of the car, not the front.
She told police when she told him to leave, he reached into the car and grabbed the steering wheel. Because he stood in front of the driver's side door, she felt she couldn't leave.
When he reached to unlock the car door, she accelerated, and knocked him over, she said. Stridel eventually admitted to trying to enter the car but denied grabbing the steering wheel. He was arrested and taken to Monroe County Correctional Center.
