CLEARFIELD – A Curwensville man has been charged with felony strangulation after an assault on a woman in a Curwensville home.
Police say Jacob Paul Montgomery, 39, assaulted the woman by pushing her against a wall, strangling her and pushing her down a staircase on Nov. 25.
He is charged with felony strangulation as well as two misdemeanor counts of simple assault and harassment. Montgomery waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday during centralized court sending his case on to the court of common pleas for further disposition.
On Wednesday, his bail was lowered from $100,000 which was set when he was arrested to $50,000. Online court documents indicate that he remains incarcerated at the county jail.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, an argument began about dishes needing cleaned around 1:10 a.m.
The victim told police after she asked him to stop being disrespectful to her, he pushed her out of the bedroom and chased her down the steps of the home. Once they were downstairs, he grabbed her around the neck and “choked her until she passed out,” according to the criminal complaint.
When she woke up, she noticed she had a chipped tooth. Montgomery started yelling at her to get out of the house. She told him she would leave, after she grabbed some of her things.
While she was upstairs gathering her items, he “slammed her against a dresser located in the hallway at the top of the steps approximately five times before pushing her down the stairs.”
After she got into the dining room, she reportedly passed out again and was awakened by him shaking her and screaming in her face.
She told police he dragged her out of the house by her knee and locked her outside. But when he saw her with a cell phone, he came back outside and chased her to the side of the house where he threw things at her and slammed her on the ground until he got the phone, according to police. He then left the scene.
