ASHEVILLE – A Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office employee is on leave after being arrested earlier this week.

Buncombe County Detention Facility Officer Trayvis Williams was taken into custody by the Asheville Police Department Nov. 25, charged with assault on a female, the Sheriff’s Office announced in a Nov. 27 news release.

Williams, 33, allegedly bent a woman’s arm backwards and hit her in the face with a closed fist while she was sitting in a car, according to a Nov. 25 arrest warrant.

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