By MARISSA DECHANT
Staff writer
An Oil City woman accused of burglary and the assault of two people in Franklin waived her preliminary hearing Wednesday in Venango County Central Court.
Charges against Erika Estrada, 32, will now be bound over for further proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas.
Estrada is facing a felony count of burglary-overnight accommodations-person present and bodily injury crime and two misdemeanor counts of simple assault.
A criminal complaint filed through District Judge Patrick Lowrey’s office said Sugarcreek Borough patrolman Darin Baker was dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Front Street on Aug. 11 for an assault.
Baker arrived to find that Estrada had fled the home, the complaint said.
Baker then spoke with a man at the residence, who said that Estrada had walked into the house, went upstairs and began to beat a woman inside a bedroom, the complaint said.
The man said he went to the bedroom and began to pull Estrada off the woman, and Estrada began to punch him in the mouth and kick him in the head, the complaint said. The man began to grab Estrada again, and the woman called police, the complaint said.
The woman was taken by Community Ambulance Service to the UPMC Northwest emergency room for treatment, the complaint said.
Estrada remains in the Venango County jail on $50,000 bail.
