CLARKSVILLE —
A Jeffersonville man was arrested early Saturday morning for allegedly holding a knife to a woman’s throat and tying a rope around her neck outside a Clarksville bowling alley, police say.
Detective Ray Hall with the Clarksville Police Department said Peter Allen Roberts Sr., 47, held the door as a 24-year-old New Albany woman was leaving Blackiston Bowl, 1516 Blackiston Mill Road, and then followed her into the parking lot where he assaulted her.
Hall read The Evening News portions of the report filed by officer Steve Fryrear, who responded to the scene at 2:32 a.m. Saturday.
“After she left, the guy, Roberts, came up behind her and put her in a choke hold and there was a struggle in the parking lot. They fell to the asphalt and then he picked her back up and put her in another choke hold,” Hall said. “He drug her to his truck and she was begging him not to kill her. He reported held a knife to her neck and said, ‘can you feel this?’”
Hall said Fryrear’s report continued to say Roberts placed a noose around the woman’s neck and pinned her to the floor of the cab of the truck. He said the woman told police she heard Roberts say, “leave us alone.”
That was when Fryrear’s report said two men — Robert Shuler and Rodger Smith Jr. — pulled Roberts off the woman and held him down until Fryrear arrived. Hall said the men said they saw a knife in one of the man’s hands and the end of the rope in the other when they pulled him from the woman. They said the woman took the noose from around her neck and ran off for safety.
Hall said he wasn’t sure who called 911 but said Shuler told police his wife had heard noises from the struggle coming from the truck.
Roberts was arrested on preliminary charges of kidnapping; criminal confinement with a deadly weapon; battery with a deadly weapon; criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon; intimidation with a deadly weapon; and strangulation.
Hall said the report indicated that Roberts and the woman did not know each other, but they had been in the bowling alley at the same time that night or early morning. He said Roberts did not have a criminal record and a search of Clark County court records online yielded no results. Hall said he believed Roberts was a regular bowler at Blackiston Bowl.
He said the woman was taken to Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services in New Albany, but none of her abrasions or cuts were serious.
Hall said CPD is still investigating the incident. Anyone with information can call the department at 812-288-7151.
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