PRINCETON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A 36-year-old Bluefield man was arrested after deputies responded to a reported domestic disturbance in the Thorn Street area of Princeton on the evening of October 11.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Mercer County, Cpl. E.D. Leftwich of the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched around 5 p.m. to the area of Thorn Street in reference to a domestic situation in progress.

A witness told deputies that a man, later identified as Christopher Lee Whittaker, was following a woman and appeared to be arguing with her.

The witness said Whittaker then used physical contact to move the woman behind a barber shop located on South Wickham Avenue.

When officers spoke with the woman, she confirmed that Whittaker had been chasing her down an alley while

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