Pottsville man
arrested for assault
Pottsville police reported being called about 11:15 a.m. Saturday to the 1100 block of West Market Street for a report of a domestic disturbance possibly involving the custody of an infant child.
At the scene, officers found a man, later identified as Christian Kohler Pond, 20, of Pottsville, who said he was just involved in a verbal altercation with the mother of his 3-month-old child while inside the Market Square apartment complex “A” building.
While talking with Pond, police said, officers were contacted by the county communications center who relayed a message that an ambulance was dispatched to the 1100 block of West Arch Street for an unknown problem involving an infant child.
At the Arch Street address, police said, officers spoke to a 23-year-old Pottsville woman who was visibly upset and crying and reported just being physically assaulted by her boyfriend who she identified as Pond.
Police said the woman reported that Pond had become angry at her while they were in her apartment and physically struck her in the face, police said, adding that the woman fled with her children into her bedroom and locked the door, at which point Pond physically kicked the door down and it struck her 3-month-old infant child in the head while she was holding him.
Police said the child suffered a laceration to the back of the head.
Pond was arrested pursuant to domestic violence simple assault and a criminal complaint prepared charging him with two counts of simple assault and one count of recklessly endangering another person.
He was arraigned on on-call Magisterial District Judge James R. Ferrier, Orwigsburg, and committed to Schuylkill County Prison unable to post $10,000 bail, police said.