FARMINGTON — A Carthage man accused of assaulting a woman early Sunday was taken into custody Tuesday in Wells, according to a post on the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department Facebook page.

Bennie Bowie II, 47, was picked up by the Wells Police Department on a Franklin County warrant charging domestic violence aggravated assault.

Bowie is accused of grabbing a woman by the hair and slamming her head through the passenger side window of his truck, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said Monday.

A woman had shown up at a Carthage residence naked and bleeding from the neck at 12:47 a.m. Sunday, Nichols said.

Bowie was picked up and taken back to the Franklin County jail in Farmington on Tuesday.

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