A Leitchfield man has been arrested after allegedly strangling his girlfriend and running from and fighting with police.
On Saturday evening at approximately 11:30, Grayson County Deputies Caleb Owens and Andy Cast were dispatched to a violent domestic disturbance on North Patterson Street in Clarkson.
Upon arriving at the scene, the female victim said that 24-year-old Matthew S. Breeden had been staying with her but that she asked him to leave because she believed he was on drugs, according to the arrest citation.
When the victim asked Breeden to leave, he “put his hands on her” and began strangling her until she couldn’t breathe. The victim told police Breeden strangled her multiple times, even when she was holding her one-year-old child, the citation states.
The victim, police said, had “visible injuries.”
At approximately midnight Saturday night, deputies attempted to serve an EPO on Breeden at a home on West Chestnut Street in Leitchfield. As police spoke with the person who answered the door, Breeden attempted to flee as he jumped out of a window in the back of the residence.
Cast quickly caught Breeden, as the suspect resisted arrest.
Breeden was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center where he was charged with first-degree strangulation, endangering the welfare of a minor, resisting arrest, fourth-degree assault (dating violence), and fleeing or evading police (on foot).
Breeden, according to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, was twice convicted in Grayson County last year. In February 2023, Breeden was convicted for third-degree burglary and in May 2023 for possession of methamphetamine.
He is on probation until January 2025.
(Photo: Mugshot from January 2023 arrest in Grayson Co., current mugshot was not available)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
