Woman forced to crawl through woods to escape after her boyfriend lost his headlamp: Cops

A antheral successful West Virginia is accused of beating and strangling his girlfriend implicit a missing headlamp, forcing her to fly into the woods to flight him.

Frank Victor Calvert Jr., 48, is successful the Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility connected $75,000 bail, according to jail records reviewed by Law&Crime.

He has been charged with felony strangulation, WVNews reported.

On June 14, a West Virginia State Police trooper said a pistillate showed up astatine 1 of the agency's buildings successful Preston County to study that she had been attacked by her fellow — Calvert — aft having obtained a home unit protective bid against him.

She alleged that astatine astir 4 a.m. that time astatine a location connected Ash Pole Road, Calvert got aggravated due to the fact that helium could not find a headlamp. She said she told him that helium had been wearing it and that she ne'er touched it, but her mentation lone made him angry.

According to troopers, helium deed her successful the face, "pulled her astir by the backmost of her hairsbreadth and ripped hairsbreadth retired from the backmost of her head." He past reportedly enactment her successful a chokehold.

The pistillate said she started suffocating and had to combat and beg Calvert "for a bully while" to beryllium fto go, per WVNews. The suspect besides allegedly squeezed her limb that had been precocious injured — requiring country — aft falling retired of a moving conveyance erstwhile she was with him.

When Calvert fto her look for the headlamp, she is said to person escaped by crawling extracurricular and moving done the woods until she got to a neighbor's house. The trooper she spoke with said her injuries included reddish marks connected her feature and astir her neck, arsenic good arsenic bruising astir her collarbone.

Jail records amusement Calvert was arrested connected Friday.