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Woman tried to escape multiple times after domestic battery arrest

GILLETTE (WNE) – A 32-year-old woman who was arrested for domestic battery Sunday night also was charged with interference after trying several times to escape custody.

A 31-year-old man in Wright called 911, saying the woman had hit him in the face. He said he’d lived with the woman for two years, but they’ve been going through a breakup for the last two months after a prior assault in May, said Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds.

He left for work earlier in the evening and asked her to watch his 9-year-old daughter. A fr...