Apple Valley Man Charged With Driving Drunk Over Girlfriend's Foot Monday Morning

An Apple Valley man is facing charges of criminal vehicular operation and domestic assault after an incident Monday morning in which he allegedly drove over his girlfriend’s foot as she tried to keep him from driving drunk to work.

Michael Allen Larimer Davis, 38, also is charged with fourth-degree drunken driving and refusing to submit to a breath test.

According to the police report on the incident, filed in Dakota County District Court in Hastings, “numerous people” called Apple Valley police just before 6 a.m. Monday to report a man and a woman fighting, and a woman “run over by a vehicle.”

When officers arrived, they allegedly found Davis yelling at the woman identified as his girlfriend and saw him pick something up and throw it at her, according to the report. One of the officers ordered Davis to come to her; as he started to approach her, another officer came around the back of the house, and Davis took up a “fighting stance,” the report says.

Davis clenched a fist and started to charge the male officer, according to the report, and the female officer used a taser to stop him.

The alleged victim told police that she and Davis had lived together since last fall, and that she and Davis had been “drinking and arguing most of the night,” according to the report. When Davis decided to go to work, the victim said, she allegedly tried to stop him because he was too drunk to drive.

The alleged victim said she leaned into the open car door and tried to grab the keys. While she was trying to reach them, Davis put the car in reverse and hit her with the open car door and ran over her left ankle, she told police.

The police report says her ankle was swollen and bruised, and that she also had bruises on her knees, a scratch on her right elbow and blood splatters on her body. Her son told police that Davis had pushed his mother during the evening.

Davis faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $3,000 fine on the charges of criminal vehicular operation and refusal to submit to a breath test, both gross misdemeanors. The maximum penalty for domestic assault and drunken driving is 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Davis remains in the Dakota County Jail in Hastings.