Fight Brings Two Arrests

A child custody battle is thought to have led to a fight outside Stop & Shop earlier in the week.

Two suspects who are charged with punching and kicking the victim face assault charges.  

Antonio Pacheco, 18, and Luis Adames, 21, both of Lynn are due in Lynn District Court for a pretrial hearing May 25, court records state.

They are charged with assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (shod feet).

Swampscott police converged on the store Monday night at 8:22, responding to a report of a fight, the record states.

Outside the store they found a young man bleeding from the mouth.

The victim told police that he was jumped by a couple of guys and the mother of his baby, the paperwork states.

He said he had received custody of his 3-month-old son two weeks ago, and a court case with the baby's mother was scheduled for Tuesday in Salem Probate Court.

The custody battle had sparked the attack, he said, the record states.

The victim said he did not recognize the men who assaulted him. He refused medical treatment.

Another person, a Swampscott resident who happened to be at the scene, later identified Pacheco and Adames as the people who had gotten out of a car and attacked the victim, the record states.

The witness said they got the victim to the ground and kicked him.

Another witness said that a woman also attacked the victim, the record states.

Pacheco told police that he went to the store because his cousin told him that her baby had been kidnapped, the record states.

After the incident, the two suspects left the store with four women in a Chevy Impala.

Police stopped the Impala on Paradise Road.

Police said in the incident report that they will seek charges against the driver of the car and the mother of the baby.

Pacheco and Adames were arraigned in Lynn District Court on Tuesday, and ordered held on cash bail.

Both of them were still being held in jail after the arraignment.