A Jim Thorpe man has been charged with violating a protection from abuse order and assaulting a woman.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by patrolman Ryan Poeldnurk of the Jim Thorpe Police Department in the case against Reinaldo Magobet, 45:

At 12:30 p.m. Dec. 28, Poeldnurk and patrolman Corey Herring of the borough police department were dispatched to a home in the 200 block of South Street for a report of a woman being actively assaulted by Magobet.

Poeldnurk talked to the victim and a man who said Magobet broke into the home through a locked door in the basement and had just assaulted the victim and run to the rear of the residence.

The victim had a clump of hair in her hand that Magobet had pulled out and she also had several red marks on her neck. She said Magobet had choked her with his hand.

Officer saw Magobet inside his silver Jeep and asked him several times to get out of the vehicle, but he refused and attempted to hold down the locks on the doors when they attempted to unlock them.

Officers gained access and Magobet became irate and yelled obscenities.

Officers had to use physical force to place him into custody.

While inside the holding cell, Magobet continued to spit inside the cell.

Magobet is in violation of indirect criminal contempt in regard to the active PFA.

Magobet faces charges of strangulation; criminal trespass; and simple assault; resisting arrest; disorderly conduct; and harassment.

He is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $75,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Feb. 10 before District Judge Eric M. Schrantz of Jim Thorpe.