WALDPORT— A Waldport man is jailed on $250,000 bond after he was arrested on his bicycle along the Alsea Highway last weekend in possession of a Taser following an alleged domestic assault.
Jonathan Vineyard, 25, was arraigned Monday on two felony charges — strangulation constituting domestic violence and first-degree criminal mischief — as well as three misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree assault and single counts of menacing, recklessly endangering another person, harassment and being a felon in possession of a restricted weapon. Deputy district attorney Hollie Boggess subsequently filed an amended charging document, converting the two felony counts to misdemeanors.
According to an affidavit of probable cause by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Garrett Brawdy, deputies were dispatched shortly after noon Jan. 28 to a report of a domestic disturbance at a recreational vehicle park on Oregon Highway 34 a few miles outside of Waldport city limits. The 911 caller said her neighbor came to her house and told her Vineyard assaulted her and then left on his bicycle headed west.
The deputy located Vineyard pedaling westbound near milepost 3.5, where he was detained, handcuffed and searched. He was carrying a Taser and long knife, according to Brawdy’s affidavit.
Vineyard denied assaulting the woman but acknowledged there was a disturbance and said he’d damaged her front door on his way out.
The woman told the deputy Vineyard had a history of assaulting her. He came to her trailer the previous night and asked her for a hug, but she refused because she “did not want him touching her,” the affidavit reads. She said he then started choking her, after which she had trouble breathing for about 20 minutes.
After strangling her, Vineyard hit her multiple times in the face with an open hand, she told the deputy. That day, she said, he’d again struck her with an open hand, and “she was just tired of being assaulted and threatened” by him. She said her two children were in the trailer during the incidents but did not witness the assaults.
The woman also pointed out damage Vineyard allegedly did to her vehicle on Jan. 24 — seven of the SUV’s eight windows were broken out and there was a hole in the windshield.
In his affidavit, Brawdy said Vineyard admitted to strangling the woman, blaming the violence on night terrors, and to hitting her previously because she was antagonizing him.
Vineyard is scheduled to be arraigned again Feb. 6 on the amended charges before Lincoln County Circuit Judge Sheryl Bachart.