STURGEON BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A man was arrested in Sturgeon Bay for an alleged assault Thursday night.
Police officers were called to an upstairs apartment on S. 3rd Avenue around 11:30 p.m. and found a 38-year-old man bleeding with cuts to his left eye and jaw.
The man told the cops someone kicked in his door and began punching him and striking him with a metal bar. The victim also says he was choked.
A third person was able to stop the assault and the suspect ran away, police say.
Officers tracked the 35-year-old suspect to Cherry Lane Bar and arrested him.
According to police, the man was intoxicated at the time of the assault which violated his bond conditions from a 5th OWI case.
Recommended charges of substantial battery, strangulation, burglary and bail jumping and the following misdemeanors: disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property have been sent to the district attorney’s office.
