A K9 officer helped track down a man wanted in connection with a violent domestic incident.
Officers responded to a report of a heated domestic incident just before 2 am and found a distraught woman with red marks on her neck and a bloody mouth. She said her husband came into the house while she was asleep and woke her up while attempting to break the heaters in the room.
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He then hit her in the head with a heater and began to choke her. She managed to break away and call the police and he fled the home on foot.
Lawrence County Deputies deployed a K9 officer to search for him and officers found the man hiding in a truck at his brother-in-law’s home. They arrested him for domestic violence and strangulation.
