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Nathan Jernigan (COURTESY PHOTO)<\/p>\nA Philadelphia man has been charged with choking his ex-girlfriend in Upper Darby.<\/p>\n
Nathan N. Jernigan, 45, of the 2000 block of Laveer Street has been charged with strangulation, assault, fire arms offenses, and DUI following the incident Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint filed by Officer Corey Hansen:<\/p>\n
Police were called to a home on the 2000 block of South Harwood Road at 3:18 a.m. for a domestic involving a firearm.<\/p>\n
The caller advised dispatchers that her ex-boyfriend had threatened her with a firearm and provided his information. Police radio also notified officers that Jernigan had an active warrant for his arrest and was trying to leave the scene in a dark colored Hyundai Palisade.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived to see the Hyundai and conducted a felony vehicle stop. Jernigan was ordered out of the vehicle and placed into handcuffs.<\/p>\n
The strong odor of alcoholic beverage was detected on him and he had difficulty keeping his balance and following directions while being ordered out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Nathan Jernigan (COURTESY PHOTO)<\/p>\n
Officers made contact with the victim, who said that Jernigan arrived at the residence highly intoxicated and was asked multiple times to leave, then a verbal altercation escalated to a physical alteration on the stairwell of the home.<\/p>\n
The victim said Jernigan placed his hands around her neck and choked her. She pushed back and he pulled a firearm from his waistband but the firearm then fell to the ground and the victim recovered it, and locked it in a bedroom.<\/p>\n
On location police observed the victim had red swelling on her neck which was photographed and a written statement was obtained.<\/p>\n
Jernigan refused chemical testing for blood alcohol level. An inventory search of his vehicle found three small partially empty bottles of wine.<\/p>\n
Jernigan was arraigned before District Judge Michael F. Culp, who set a monetary bail at $250,000. The defendant was unable to post bail and taken to Delaware County prison. He is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing Dec. 4 before District Judge Benjamin Johns.<\/p>\n
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt acknowledged the courage of the woman, and all women, who come forward and seek help.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe stand with you and support you. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available 24\/7,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce again, a senseless act of domestic violence. Putting your hands on a woman, especially choking her, is unacceptable. This behavior is cowardly and will not be tolerated. You will be arrested and prosecuted. There are no excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernhardt also recognize the responding officers saying, \u201ctheir quick actions kept everyone safe and brought the suspect into custody without further harm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man has been charged with choking his ex-girlfriend in Upper Darby. Nathan N. Jernigan, 45, of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,5295,7282,728,50,1448,2830,1311,11104,67,586,132,5230,40121,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-403577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-delaware-county","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-top-stories-dtd","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-upper-darby-township","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115610345850078962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}