A man was injured when he allegedly shattered one of the windows of a vehicle where his wife was at the entrance of Coral Ocean Point in Koblerville last Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Bok Lee, 27, also allegedly repeatedly punched his wife\u2019s male friend who was also inside the car and had aided her.<\/p>\n
Lee was arrested for assault and battery-domestic violence and disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n
Lee\u2019s wife allegedly wanted a divorce because of his continued use of methamphetamine or \u201cice.\u201d<\/p>\n
When a police officer arrived at the scene, Lee was bleeding from his right hand and had a cut on his left forearm, scrapes on his right elbow, and his left eye was swelling.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho imposed a $10,000 cash bail on Lee and set the preliminary hearing for Aug. 14 at 9am.<\/p>\n
Assistant public defender Cindy Nesbit is Lee\u2019s counsel. Assistant attorney general Heather Barcinas appeared for the government.<\/p>\n
A police officer was sent to a report of a disturbance at the entrance of Coral Ocean Point last Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 8:10pm.<\/p>\n
Upon arriving, the officer saw Lee standing next to a red car, holding a little girl and arguing with his wife.
\nThe officer saw the wife trying to grab the child from Lee. Another police officer also arrived and approached the family.<\/p>\n
The first responding officer noticed that Lee was bleeding. Lee asked for an ambulance. <\/p>\n
The officer then saw that the red car\u2019s back driver\u2019s side window had been damaged.<\/p>\n
The officer also saw cuts on the forearm of the wife\u2019s friend but he refused medical treatment.<\/p>\n
The wife and his friend told police that Lee attacked them while they were inside the SUV. Lee was later arrested at the Commonwealth Health Center.<\/p>\n
The wife told police that Lee had been beating her and that she had been asking for a divorce for a long time now. He allegedly threatened to kill himself if she leaves him.<\/p>\n
This time, however, she became angry with him and had packed her things so she could leave with their daughter, with the aid of her friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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