A Scranton man choked his girlfriend after she told him she had cheated on him, police said.<\/p>\n
Nassiah Barnett told police that Tristan Lee got on top of her, grabbed both sides of her neck and squeezed, choking her to unconsciousness.<\/p>\n
Officers observed injuries to Barnett\u2019s lip and neck when they arrived in the 500 block of Cayuga Street at 6:42 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, the argument started when Barnett accused Lee of cheating and then detailed how she had also cheated on him.<\/p>\n
Barnett told officers Lee choked her to unconsciousness and when she woke, \u201cit was like a euphoric feeling or a high.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an effort to make him stop, Barnett told Lee she had been lying about cheating on him. At that point Lee got off of her.<\/p>\n
Lee is charged with strangulation, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.<\/p>\n
He remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on March 4 before District Judge Paul Keeler.<\/p>\n
Officers provided Barnett with information about getting a protection-from-abuse order and services available at the Women\u2019s Resource Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man choked his girlfriend after she told him she had cheated on him, police said. Nassiah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-121001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}