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Two domestic violence incidents resulted in two arrests in Oconee County over the weekend.

Seneca Police officers responded Friday to a domestic dispute at Northwoods Apartments, and upon arrival spoke with a visibly shaken woman who said her husband, James Brian Farley, struck her and pushed her against her bedroom wall while threatening to kill her.

Farley has been arrested five times in the past year on charges from assault to disorderly conduct to criminal domestic violence. He is still incarcerated at Oconee County Detention Center, where he’s being held on $2,130 surety bond.

Two days later in Walhalla, another domestic disturbance turned violent, resulting in the arrest of a female.

According to witness’ and victims’ statements to Oconee County Sheriff’s deputies, Tracy Alison Genessa Neal, 36, got into a dispute with her boyfriend when he told her he wanted her friends to leave their Abbott Road residence.

According to reports, Neal jumped on her boyfriend and hit him with a stick and a frying pan, leaving marks on the victim’s shoulder, as well as bleeding on his ankle and redness to his head.

Responding officers asked Neal if her boyfriend had hit her, and she admitted he had not, and subsequently acknowledged that she had struck him with a stick, her hand, and had thrown a frying pan at him.

Deputies said Neal appeared intoxicated and possibly under the influence of a narcotic, as she was “fidgety.”

Kristi Michelle Micholson of Westminster was at the residence at the time of the incident and fled before deputies arrived because she had multiple warrants out for her arrest for forgery charges. She was later tracked down and arrested.

Neal is still at Oconee County Detention Center on $2,500 surety bond.

Criminal domestic violence, second offense is a Class-C misdemeanor punishable by from 30 days to a year in prison, and a fine of from $2,500 to $5,000.

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