Cops: Delmont man choked woman, threatened family during argument

Police arrested a 44-year-old Delmont man after he allegedly choked a woman and threatened to harm her family over the weekend.

Thomas A. Patterson was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, simple assault, strangulation and making terroristic threats by police after the 2:30 p.m. Saturday incident.

Officer Dylan Keffer reported in court documents that the woman said the couple argued about her family in an apartment on Spring Lane when Patterson began “retrieving his shotguns and laying them on a bed.” The woman told police that Patterson then said “now, you and your family will be taken care of,” Keffer wrote in court documents.

When she called 911, Patterson assaulted the woman and began choking her, Keffer reported. The officer said he took photographs of red marks around the woman’s neck.

When Keffer and Murrysville police arrived to investigate, Keffer said Patterson told them “we just argued that’s it.”

Police confiscated two shotguns, one that was loaded, laying on a bed inside, according to court documents.

Patterson was ordered held in the county jail on $10,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled Nov. 5 before Export District Judge Charles Conway.