Lakewood Man Punched And Tried To Strangle Wife: Cops

LAKEWOOD, CO – A Lakewood man accused of punching and trying to strangle his wife in May, then fleeing, will appear in Jefferson County District Court next week.

Brent Kyle Johnson, 39, was charged Sept. 17 with domestic assault and strangulation, theft, harassment and criminal mischief. He was taken into custody by Denver police Sept. 11 and has been held in Jefferson County Jail since Sept. 14, said John Romero, public information officer for Lakewood Police.

Lakewood police were summoned to a home in the 1900 bock of Jellison Street around 9 p.m. on May 22, an arrest affidavit said. Amid a scene of broken glass and blood, they found a woman with injuries to her face, arms, neck and eye. She told officers her husband Johnson had flown into a rage when she asked if he had been "tweaking" or taking methamphetamine. She described a fight in which Johnson punched her, spit in he face and threw her on the bedroom floor and tried to strangle her.

She told police she fought back, hitting him in the face with a glass coffee maker that shattered across the kitchen. She told police Johnson grabbed her black purse, containing credit cards and medication. Then, she said, he jumped through a bedroom window and fled.

Police investigators later spoke to her by phone. She had left the area but reported that in her 15-year-relationship with Johnson, there had been a series of violent attacks, with him trying to strangle her "approximately 15 times" and that he "broke six of my ribs two years ago," which she said she did not report. She said she feared for her life during the May attack and had called police because of the escalating violence with her husband.

Johnson was found to have a "multi-state violent criminal history" in California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, the arrest affidavit said. He had an active felony warrant for car-jacking from Colorado Springs, the police report said.

Johnson is being held on on $15,000 bond. He is next scheduled to appear in court Sept. 24.

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