WINONA, Minn. — A Winona man was arrested hiding and drunk near his on-again off-again girlfriend’s house, police said. This was after she called police that she had been assaulted and choked. Arrested was Phillip Edward Edmunds, age 36. This was about 3:30 a.m. in the 300 block of East Sanborn Street. The woman said that she was awakened by pounding on her door and that Edmunds forced his way in. An argument led to a broken window and a liquor bottle he was carrying being busted on the floor, she said. Officers observed her scratched neck. She said the assault continued on the front porch. Police followed a trail of blood, apparently from cuts on a hand from the broken window or shards from the liquor bottle. They found Edmunds hiding. He didn’t cooperate with the arrest but didn’t resist, officers said. The tentative charges:
> Strangulation.
> Assault causing fear and harm.
> Property damage.