A Scranton man grabbed a woman by the neck, shoved her against a refrigerator and then hit her in the face after an argument on Saturday, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
After being asked to leave the Hilltop Manor apartment,\u00a0Samad Lee Barnes, 30, picked up a metal chair from the porch and threw it through the back door, shattering the glass, police said.<\/p>\n
Barnes faces charges of simple assault and harassment.<\/p>\n
On Saturday at about 9:30 p.m., Scranton police were called to 862 Herbert St. for the report of a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they noted that the rear door was completely shattered, with a metal chair on the ground nearby.<\/p>\n
Beverly Tate told officers the couple had been arguing over \u201csomething stupid\u201d that quickly escalated and turned physical.<\/p>\n
Tate said Barnes had left the scene but would likely return shortly because he didn\u2019t have a vehicle.<\/p>\n
She told officers Barnes had never hit her before.<\/p>\n
Officers searched the apartment complex and surrounding area but weren\u2019t able to locate Barnes. But he was taken into custody Sunday around 11 p.m., according to a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Barnes was arraigned Monday before District Judge Kipp Adcock. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 29.<\/p>\n
He remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail.<\/p>\n
Officers provided Tate with information about getting a protection-from-abuse order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man grabbed a woman by the neck, shoved her against a refrigerator and then hit her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-249548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249548","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=249548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}