A 33-year-old Eureka man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend after the two reportedly argued about her bringing marijuana into his parents’ home. Police were called at about 9 p.m. May 9 to a home in the 600 block Bluffs View Court when the girlfriend – a 27-year-old Pacific woman – contacted authorities to report the alleged assault, Eureka Police reported.
The woman said her boyfriend choked her during the physical altercation, but she was able to get away and call police from a neighbor’s house. The woman said the man smashed her phone when she tried to call the police in his parents’ home. She had redness and swelling on her neck and arms, the report said.
The man told authorities he had been involved in a physical altercation with his girlfriend and held her down after she allegedly attacked him with a knife. The man had lacerations on the right side of his face, according to the report.
The man said the two began to argue when the woman asked him if he wanted to smoke marijuana. He said he flipped out and told her if “his parents found out there were drugs in the house, they would cut his head off,” the report said.
He said he smashed a glass bong and told her to get her stuff out of the house. He said she punched, head-butted and shoved him before going to the kitchen and getting a knife, according to the report.
The man said she swung the knife at him, but he was able to duck and tackle her. He said when he let her up, she ran out of the house, the report said.
The man was arrested and taken to the Police Station, where paramedics treated his wounds. He refused to go to the hospital or press charges against the woman, the report said.
The woman, however, did want to press charges, and the man was issued a summons to appear in Eureka Municipal Court for third-degree domestic assault and then released, Capt. David Wilson said.