A Wilton man is accused of cutting a woman’s leg with a machete Saturday morning, Franklin County’s Daily Bulldog reported.
Yarette Dones, 19, faces a charge of aggravated assault after he allegedly ended a fight with a woman at a Main Street residence by hacking her leg with the blade, the publication reported.
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Wilton Police Officer Ethan Kyes wrote in an affidavit that Dones said he and the woman were fighting over his phone, that she threw a table at him and kicked him in the stomach before he hit her with the machete, which the officer wrote caused a “large wound” that was believed to reach bone, according to the Daily Bulldog.
The fight took place before 6 a.m. Saturday, the publication reported. Dones was reportedly taken to Franklin County Detention Center.