Crime & Safety
Man Charged In Domestic Violence Assault: Milford Police
A man has been charged on allegations that he tried to suffocate a victim and threatened her with a knife, police said.
MILFORD, CT — A Meriden man is accused of assaulting a victim in front of her toddler in Milford, according to police.
Milford police took the man into custody on two arrest warrants for separate incidents.
The 23-year-old man is accused of throwing a woman to the floor by her hair, choking her, and trying to suffocate her, police said. The victim's child was present during one incident.
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The man is also accused of throwing water at the child and throwing the child onto the couch.
He threatened the victim with a knife in one of the incidents as well, police said.
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The man was charged with two counts of reckless endangerment, two counts of strangulation, two counts of second-degree threatening, two counts of unlawful restraint, and risk of injury.
Bond was set at $175,000. He was scheduled to appear in Milford Superior Court on Monday.
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