Cops: Man choked, threatened woman

MIDDLETOWN — A Middletown man was arrested last week after allegedly choking a woman and threatening to kill her and himself, according to an arrest report from the city police department.

The woman had returned home around 10:30 p.m. on Sept.8 to find High Street resident Dadrick Dontez Jacobs sleeping on her front porch, according to the report.

When she woke him up to ask him why he was there, Jacobs started to yell at her, the arrest report states.

Trying to stop his yelling and not wake her neighbors up, the woman let Jacobs into her apartment to and had him sleep in a recliner chair, according to the arrest report.

Several hours later, Jacobs woke up yelling and started to become violent with the woman, according to the report.

As the woman began to call the police, Jacobs came after her, grabbing her by the throat and knocking her onto the bed, the report said.

The woman told police Jacobs choked her to the point that she couldn’t breathe, the arrest report said.

Jacobs allegedly told the woman he wanted to kill her and then kill himself, according to the arrest report. He grabbed a knife, which the woman took, and allegedly pushed her up against the walls. The woman was later able to get her phone and call 911, the arrest report said.

Police said officers responded to the Middletown residence just before 3 a.m. the following day for a domestic violence incident. Once they arrived, the officers heard yelling and loud banging noises coming from the multifamily home, the arrest report states.

When officers approached the doorway, they saw Jacobs and the woman coming downstairs, but the woman fell, the report read.

The woman told investigators that Jacobs had pushed her on the stairs, according to the report.

Jacobs was charged with interfering with an emergency call, third-degree assault, disorderly conduct, second-degree strangulation and second-degree threatening, records show.

He was arraigned in Superior Court at Middletown Sept. 9, is being held on $100,000 bond and expected back in court Oct. 21.

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