CITY POLICE
NEWS RELEASE
Officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested a 34 year-old male on the 23rd of January at 11:10 pm at his residence and charged him with one count of assault, one count of threaten death or bodily harm and one count of kill or injure an animal.
It is alleged that the accused assaulted his common law partner at their residence during the first week of January and threatened to kill her back in October 2011.
Further, the accused killed the family cat during fit of rage in December of 2006.
The accused is to appear in bail court this morning.
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