Police Say Heights Woman Waved Machete at Boyfriend

A 31-year old Chicago Heights man was scratched and then threatened with a large knife during an argument with his girlfriend on Jan. 11, police said.

Sharice T. Newman, 25, of the first block of East 15th Street, was arrested and charged with domestic battery after her live-in boyfriend told police she scratched him across his neck and chest with her fingernails.

Newman then picked up a two-foot-long black machete and waved it at the boyfriend, using it to break the driver's side window of their vehicle, according to the report.

As Newman was being taken into custody she kept pulling away and trying to kick the boyfriend, for which she was issued an additional charge of resisting arrest, police said.

Police saw scratches on the boyfriend's neck and chest, but the man refused medical attention, according to the report.

The woman gave permission to leave her daughter with the boyfriend while she was in police custody.

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