BATH

While on their way to check on a person on bail Saturday night, Bath police officers were drawn by voices to an adjacent apartment where they eventually arrested another man out on bail who allegedly bit his wife during an argument.

Police were responding to an apartment building on Court Street at 11 p.m. Saturday to check on another person with bail conditions when they arrested Russell Golden, 47, of Bath and charged him with violating conditions of release, domestic violence assault and refusing to submit to arrest.

Bath Police Lt. Robert Savary said officers went to the apartment building to do a bail violation check on an individual and could hear yelling and screaming coming from an adjacent apartment. They proceeded to investigate where this noise was coming from and found an upset woman crying.

One officer stayed with the woman; the other interviewed her husband, Golden, and determined an assault had taken place. Golden allegedly struck the woman on her right cheek, threw her to the floor and bit her left cheek leaving a bruise. There was also a large bruise on her upper left arm which she said the result of him biting her earlier in the week, Savary said. He saw no record of her being treated at the scene for what he said were non-life threatening injuries.

Golden was arrested, Savary said, but was uncooperative and wouldn’t submit to arrest, or to a breath sample to determine how much alcohol he’d consumed as required to by his bail conditions.

dmoore@timesrecord.com