[MI] Officer Luthy's wife files PPO trying to protect herself after assault

Friday, 05 Aug 2011
[Excerpts] After Kalamazoo Public Safety Police officer Steven Luthy was arrested for allegedly beating his wife, she filed for a personal protection order that details what happened... Van Buren County sheriff's deputies found Luthy's wife had visible injuries... In the PPO, signed by Judge Paul Hamre Monday, Luthy's wife explains what happened. He came home drunk, she wrote. "I asked if he had fun, he started following me, I called my sister. He hit the phone out of my hand, smashed the side of my face, pushed me down the stairs and we fought. He punched me in the face." When asked if Luthy had ever threatened her specifically, and what his exact words were, she wrote: "Everyone in our family would be better off if you were dead. I get excited thinking of coming home and seeing your brains splattered anywhere."