CLARKSTON, WA – A 39-year-old Clarkston man was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly assaulted another man in the 2200 block of 13th Street. Brandon T. Blimka was booked into the Asotin County Jail on charges of 2nd-Degree Assault, 1st-Degree Burglary, and Obstructing Public Servants.
According to a Probable Cause Affidavit, Blimka had reportedly forced his way into a garage and chased a 25-year-old man outside where he pummeled him, then left in his white Dodge Ram pickup.
“Brandon came into the garage (attached), tackled [the man] to the ground in the driveway, and hit him,” the affidavit says.
Blimka had reportedly been at the residence earlier in the evening and left without incident.
“At 23:37 hours [11:37 p.m.], Blimka showed back up, racing down the driveway uninvited (seen on recorded/obtained blink camera surveillance),” the affidavit says. “Video displays Blimka’s fully identifiable Dodge [pickup] at a high rate of speed down the driveway, passing the resident’s link door bell camera at the time of the alleged assault.”
The court document says Blimka was seen in video footage running to the west garage man door, making entry, and yelling at the alleged victim prior to tackling him.
“[The man] is assaulted and drug to the front driveway,” according to the affidavit. Blimka then left the scene.
A short time later, several units from the Clarkston Police Department and Asotin County Sheriff’s Office responded to Blimka’s Clarkston residence where they discovered his pickup parked and the engine hot to the touch, the affidavit says. An individual matching Blimka’s description was reportedly seen through a window.
Officers attempted to contact Blimka for 45 minutes, the affidavit adds, but no one answered the door.
A search warrant was applied for the residence at about 1:40 a.m. and it was approved at around 2:00 a.m.
Blimka was still not responding to the presence of the law enforcement officers so a battering ram was used to open the front door which was locked with a deadbolt.
The affidavit says officers cleared numerous ground-floor rooms and eventually located Blimka, awake and cooperative, in a bedroom. He was handcuffed and transported to the Asotin County Jail.
During an interview with a law enforcement officer, Blimka reportedly proceeded to give a near identical timeline of events, “in other words full confession in the crimes I had established probable cause for,” the officer says in the affidavit.
“Blimka explicitly agreed that his intention of going in the garage was to assault [the man],” the affidavit says.
The man ran out the man door and “Blimka stated he gave chase and [pummeled] him in the driveway,” the document adds.
Blimka was booked into jail at 3:00 a.m.
