On 12/20/18 Mt. Carmel Police arrested Michael T. Dardeen, age 29, of Mt. Carmel, for Domestic Battery following a dispute with his wife at their residence in the 100 block of East 11th Street.  Officers arrived to the scene and investigated the incident.  After doing so officers found evidence to indicate Dardeen had battered his wife.  Dardeen was placed under arrest at this time and transported to the Wabash County Jail.  Dardeen was held pending a bond setting by a judge.