A Monroe County man was arrested Monday after allegedly beating a girl and dragging her down a street, officials said.

Monroe County Sheriff's deputies were called at about 8 p.m. to a home in the 1800 block of Aspen Street near Ward and Newport roads in Newport for a report of a domestic disturbance, according to authorities.

The caller told dispatchers that her fiancé had assaulted her daughter and then dragged the 11-year-old girl from the house down the street and refused to let her go, investigators said. The caller reported she was following the 35-year-old man and her daughter as they moved down the street.

A deputy arrived and found a man grasping onto a girl about four blocks away in the area of Cedar Street and Ashlyn Drive, police said.

He commanded the man to release the g

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