Domestic Assault, Jan. 8

Wildahl Rd., CCSO release – On January 5, 2019, at approximately 01:22 A.M., Coos County Sheriff’s Deputies were notified of a domestic disturbance at 63324 Wildahl Road, Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon. It was reported a male had choked his girlfriend. When Deputies arrived at the scene, two male subjects and one juvenile child were locked outside the residence while two female subjects with three juvenile children were inside the home. After an investigation, it was discovered a verbal altercation had escalated into physical violence between 31-year old Michael L. Porter, North Bend, and his girlfriend. During the course of the physical altercation it was learned Porter had strangled and punched his girlfriend with a closed fist in the face causing a laceration of her lip as well as a bloody nose. It was also determined the physical dispute took place in the immediate presence of a minor child residing within the household. Subsequently, Porter was arrested and transported to the Coos County Jail for Felony Domestic Assault in the Fourth Degree, Menacing and Felony Strangulation.