A 36-year-old man was arrested Monday after police said he assaulted a woman during a domestic violence incident on St. Croix.
According to the Virgin Islands Police Department, detectives were called to the Ancilmo Marshall Command around 3 p.m., where an adult female reported that her boyfriend, Nelson Garcia Jr., had punched her and struck her in the head with a cell phone, causing visible injuries.
Garcia surrendered to police at the Wilbur H. Francis Command and was taken into custody. He is charged with second-degree assault and simple assault and battery. Under domestic violence law, no bail was set, according to the police report.
He was booked, transported to the John Bell Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility, and remanded pending an advice of rights hearing, the police report stated.
