Police: Delco man arrested for assaulting Hatfield woman

HATFIELD TOWNSHIP >> Hatfield Township police say a 37-yearold Delaware County man got into an ugly confrontation with the mother of his three children Monday night, first attempting to kick in her front door and then physically assaulting her once he got inside.

Christopher Foss, of the 700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in Wallingford, was arraigned Tuesday morning in district court on one count of second-degree felony criminal trespassing, as well as misdemeanor counts of defiant trespassing, simple assault and reckless endangerment and a related summary offense.

Hatfield cops responded to a residence on the 2400 block of North Broad Street around 9:30 p.m. on April 24 and found a woman with a bleeding hand wound, according to a criminal complaint. Cops observed broken glass, a broken picture frame and drops of blood on the floor just inside the front door, police said.

The woman told officers that Foss had come to her home and tried to break the front door down by repeatedly kicking it, according to the complaint.

She stated that she told Foss to “get the (expletive) off my property,” then went into the basement and retrieved the wooden handle of a hand tool and again warned Foss to leave, police said.

Foss continued to kick the door, and, fearing that he would cause damage to it that she would be responsible for, the woman opened the door, raised the wooden handle and told him to back off or she would hit him, according to the complaint.

However, Foss grabbed the handle and the woman’s arm and shoved her into a wall, at which point she threw the picture frame at Foss and he left, the complaint indicates.

Police said the woman sustained the laceration to her hand, and complained of pain to her forearm, as a result of the assault.

According to court documents, Foss and the woman have no court order for visitation but they have a verbal agreement in which Foss is not to come to the residence “unsolicited and unannounced.”

Bail in the case was set at $15,000 cash and Foss — who was in violation of his parole in another criminal case by virtue of his arrest Monday, authorities said — was committed to county jail.

Court records show that Foss is currently serving three years of probation after being convicted in 2015 of burglarizing a Lansdale home that had been raided a few days earlier during a heroin bust. Foss was also convicted of robbery and other offenses in Philadelphia court last year and was sentenced to nine to 23 months of incarceration, to be followed by three years of probation, records show.

A preliminary hearing in the latest case is set for May 17.