UTICA, Minn. – Deputies arrested a rural man after being called to a domestic disturbance at a house south of Utica. Jacob Scott Perdue, age 26, was charged with assault on a woman and smashing her phone. This was about 9:50 p.m. in the 28000 block of Sandpoint Road. The 22-year-old woman told deputies that Perdue had been abusive, which she began recording on her phone and which made him angrier. When he went for the phone, she flung herself on a bed and buried the device under her, she said. He got the phone anyway, went to a bathroom, and rendered the device inoperable, she said. During all this, she said, she was fearful. There were no visible injuries suggesting that medical attention was needed, deputies said. They described the woman as distraught.
Perdue. Accused in outbursts that girlfriend recorded live on her phone.