Footprints in Snow Led Police to Domestic Assault Suspect

Footprints in the freshly fallen snow led police to find a man who they said is accused of choking and assaulting his fiancée in Plainfield.

Police responded to Main Street in the Moosup section of Plainfield just after 8:30 a.m. on Thursday to investigate a domestic disturbance and the victim told them that her fiance, Andrew Olson, 28, choked and assaulted her.

The victim was able to escape from the home during the attack and went next door to a neighbor’s home for help, leaving her 1-year-old, 4-year-old and 6-year-old children inside the house with Olson, police said.

Before police arrived, Olson had run from the home, south on Main Street, police said.

The fresh covering of snow yesterday provided police with a trail, half-a-mile away and into the woods, where they found Olson and apprehended him.

Olsen was arrested and charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor, disorderly conduct, third-degree assault, violation of a protective order, third-degree strangulation, unlawful restraint and interfering/ resisting arrest.

He was held on a $50,000 bond and will be arraigned at the Danielson Superior Court on March 6.

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