Police Beat March 8
CANTON
Assault alleged: Christopher David Barnes, 27, of Homestead, is charged by state police with strangulation, simple assault, harassment and criminal mischief over allegations he choked Beatricia Meriweather about 1 a.m. Thursday in her residence in the 200 block of Prigg Road. She identified Barnes as her boyfriend and accused him of kicking down her front door before punching her several times in her head. Barnes was placed in Washington County Jail on $25,000 bond set by District Judge Ethan Ward.
WASHINGTON
Drug charges: Eric W. Johnson, 30, of Washington was charged by the county drug task force with drug delivery and possessing drug paraphernalia. Court papers said that Johnson sold an unspecified amount of heroin to a confidential informant during a transaction at an unspecified location in the city while under surveillance by a detective in April 2018. He was charged on Monday at the office of District Judge Robert Redlinger.
Vandalism alleged: David T. Galiffa, 31, faces a charge of criminal mischief stemming from a report to police that he threw a brick at a woman’s car windshield on Jan. 21 causing $812 in damage. Records show Galiffa is already being held in the Washington County jail on separate charges filed later in January. The new charge was filed on Wednesday at the office of District Judge Robert Redlinger.