Domestic violence season begins in earnest

CITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASES

************************* The following five persons were arrested as a result of domestic/ family dispute-related incidents. All are to appear in bail court this morning:

- A 43-year-old male was arrested on the 3rd of January at 5:20 p.m. at his residence and charged with one count of assault, one count of overcoming resistance by choking, one count of threatening death or bodily harm and one count of breach of probation. It is alleged that between the 2nd and 3rd of January, the accused assaulted his common-law partner at their residence by punching, kicking and choking her. Further, the accused threatened to kill the victim during the incident. The victim received non-life-threatening injuries as a result. At the time of the incident the accused as on probation with conditions that he not harass, annoy the victim and to keep the peace and be good.

- A 54-year-old male was arrested on the 3rd of January at 2:35 p.m. at his residence and charged with one count of assault. It is alleged that on the 3rd of January the accused got into a verbal argument with his wife at their residence and assaulted her. The victim received non-life-threatening injuries as a result.

- A 29-year-old male was arrested on the 1st of January at 1:10 p.m. at his downtown residence and charged with one count of assault and one count of breach of a release document. It is alleged that on the 1st of January at 12:30 p.m., the accused attended at his girlfriend’s residence, got into a verbal argument with her and assaulted her. The victim received non-life-threatening injures as a result. At the time of the incident the accused was on an undertaking with conditions not to harass, annoy or physically interfere with the victim.

- A 16-year-old female youth was arrested on the 2cnd of January at 3:39 p.m. at her residence and charged with two counts of assault with a weapon and two counts of threaten death or bodily harm. On the 2nd of January at 3:10 p.m., City Police were called to a family dispute at the residence of the accused. It is alleged that the accused got into a verbal dispute with two of her family members and during the dispute she grabbed a knife from the kitchen and made threatening gestures towards them and also threatened to kill them.

- A 45-year-old male was arrested on the 31st of December at 7:37 p.m. at his residence and charged with one count of assault and one count of breach or probation. It is alleged that on the 31st of December at 7:30 p.m., the accused assaulted his common-law partner at their residence and he assaulted her. At the time of the incident the accused was on conditions to keep the peace and be good.

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