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ELKINS -- A Randolph County man was arrested after allegedly injuring a woman by hitting her in the head with a stick.
Albert Darnell Robey, 44, of Elkins, has been charged with malicious or unlawful assault. He is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on $15,000 bond.
According to the criminal complaint, prepared by Patrolman J.H. White of the Elkins Police Department, on Monday at about 2:22 p.m. officers received a "walk up" complaint at the police department from a woman who told them Robey "assaulted me with a stick" early that morning at about 1 a.m.
The alleged victim said the incident left her with a "head gashed open" and a "busted lip," the complaint states. She said the alleged assault occurred "in a wooded area just off of North Randolph Avenue in Elkins."
She said they had gotten into an argument and Robey called her "a bunch of names" and "proceeded to grab her by her hair and get in her face and hit her with a stick, causing the wound on her head, then slapped her and busted her lip open," according to the complaint.
Officers saw the alleged victim had "a sizable wound above her left eye with dried blood around the wound, as well as on her forehead, brow and eyelid," the complaint states. She also had multiple bruises on her face and a cut inside her bottom lip.