By News Director Jared Atha
A Clinton man was arrested and charged in Custer County recently after he allegedly assaulted his live-in girlfriend in front of a child.
According to a probable cause affidavit, 32-year-old Christopher Gene Jenkins was arrested on January 30, after police were dispatched to a home in the 1300 block of Prairie Chief Avenue.
When police arrived they met with the suspect who stated that he got into an argument with his girlfriend. Jenkins stated that it was only a verbal altercation and it did not get physical.
However the reporting party told police that Jenkins allegedly pushed his girlfriend’s head into a window in the bedroom and then began choking her.