A Des Moines man was arrested on a Dallas County warrant Tuesday in connection with a February incident in which he allegedly “curb stomped” two men outside a West Des Moines nightclub.
Daniel Lee Trigg, 45, of 2420 E. 16th St., Des Moines, was charged with willful injury causing serious injury and assault causing bodily injury or mental illness.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 at a nightclub in the 7200 block of Vista Drive in West Des Moines, where officers of the West Des Moines Police Department responded to a report of a bar fight.
Investigation revealed that Trigg allegedly “dragged” each of the victims out of the bar and “repeatedly ‘curb stomped’ the victim against the head,” according to court records.
One of the victims “sustained a golf-ball-sized lump on his forehead from the assault,” and the other victim “was later diagnosed having multiple brain bleeds (SAH, SDH and frontal) and a skull fracture,” according to court records. Both victims were transported by West Des Moines EMS.
Trigg was held in the Dallas County Jail on a $5,000 cash or surety bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing March 31 in Dallas County District Court.
Trigg was arrested in January on a Polk County warrant on charges of willful injury causing serious injury and assault while participating in a felony in connection with an October 2022 incident at Adventureland in Altoona, where he allegedly started a fight in which he “slammed the victim’s head into a fence” and “continued to punch and strike the victim several times” after the victim was on the ground, according to court records. The victim sustained “a chipped tooth, fractured nose, facial laceration, swelling of the face and a concussion which resulted in the victim not being able to drive for several weeks” as a result of the alleged attack by Trigg, who is scheduled for a preliminary hearing March 31 in Polk County District Court.
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
