Man assaulted woman for weeks, maybe months, charges state

Johnathon Charles Fresh | Davis County Jail

WOODS CROSS — A man who allegedly wouldn’t allow a woman to leave his apartment for weeks, possibly months, and assaulted her during that time was charged Tuesday.

Johnathon Charles Fresh, 44, of Salt Lake City, was charged in 2nd District Court with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony; drug possession, a class A misdemeanor; assault, a class B misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia, a class B misdemeanor.

On Feb. 26, a man called Woods Cross police reporting that Fresh had just assaulted him, according to charging documents. While police were investigating that incident, they learned that a woman with “extensive bruising and evidence of injury all over her body,” had also been assaulted by Fresh, the charges state.

The woman claimed she had been assaulted that day, and “in the days and weeks that preceded that incident,” according to charging documents.

Police wrote in their affidavit when they arrested Fresh that the woman claimed she had been in the apartment “since before Christmas, unable to leave,” and that Fresh “only allowed her to exit the messy apartment three times in three months.”

“Johnathon has physically punched, kicked and strangled the victim,” according to the affidavit.

According to court records, Fresh was convicted of attempted drug possession in 2016 and had an outstanding warrant from that case at the time of his arrest for failing to show up to a court hearing.

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