A man who reportedly hit and strangled his girlfriend was sentenced to three years. 

Wesley Paul Scott was sentenced in Circuit Court for an altercation which occurred in August of 2023. According to the warrant, Deputy Brayden Carter responded to a physical domestic call on Aug. 20, 2023. 

When he arrived, Deputy Carter observed a female sitting on a five-gallon bucket. According to the warrant, the woman appeared to be disoriented and had several scratches and bruises on her face. She stated her boyfriend, Scott, made accusations that she had left work early the day prior and he got angry. 

She stated Scott got on top of her and began to kick and hit her in the face. Scott then began to strangle her, the warrant states. During the altercation, the victim attempted to leave the residence, but Scott reportedly grabbed her phone and broke it, preventing her from contacting emergency services. 

Scott was charged with aggravated assault, interference with a 911 call and violation of a no-contact order. His bond was set at $43,000. He was sentenced to three years to serve 106 days and ordered to pay court costs and to stay away from the victim for aggravated assault. He was also sentenced to 11 months 29 days on probation for interference with a 911 call.

Consecutively to those sentences, Scott was sentenced to eight days to serve for driving on revoked license, fourth offense. He was also sentenced to two years and ordered to pay court costs for reckless endangerment and was sentenced to three years to serve 60 days for evading arrest. Scott was indicted for these charges in Oct. of 2022. 

The indictment states Scott, “on or about the 15 day of July 2022, in Warren County, and before the finding of this indictment, unlawfully did drive a motor vehicle within the entire width between the boundary lines of a publicly maintained roadway which is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, or the premises of any shopping center, manufactured housing complex or apartment complex or any other premises frequented by the public at large, at a time when the privilege of Wesley Paul Scott to do so was canceled, suspended or revoked.” 

The grand jurors of Warren County also state prior to this offence, Scott was previously convicted of the same offence of driving on a revoked license in Bedford County in Oct. 14, and in Warren County in April 2019 and Sept. 2016. 

The grand jurors also found that on July 15, 2022 Scott, “recklessly did engage in the conduct which placed or may have placed another person in imminent danger of death or seriously bodily injury, said offense being committed with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a motor vehicle, constituting the offense of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.” 

The indictment goes on to say that on July 15, 2022, “While operating a motor vehicle on any street, road, alley, or highway intentionally did flee from or attempt to elude Deputy Jakub Watts of Warren County Sheriff’s Department after Wesley Paul Scott received a signal from this law enforcement officer to bring the vehicle to a stop, and in doing so did create a risk of death or injury to innocent bystanders or other third parties, constituting the offense of evading arrest-risk to others.”