Checotah area resident Jacob Stephen Sparkman, 37, faces several charges related to domestic abuse.

He is charged in Mc-Intosh County District Court with domestic assault and battery by strangulation; kidnapping; child neglect and domestic assault and battery resulting in great bodily harm.

The charges were filed on July 17. He was released on a $35,000 bond. A pre-preliminary hearing conference has been set for 9 a.m., Sept. 17.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed by Deputy Sheriff Bailey Degraffenreid, Sparkman was arrested after allegedly beating his wife, Megan Sparkman, at her residence near Checotah and when she escaped he allegedly pursued her into Warner and attempted to run her off the road.

She stopped in front of the Connors State College Campus and a campus police officer stopped Jacob Sparkman, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Megan left the site intending to return home to pick up her children, but lost control of her car, wrecking it, according to the affidavit.

Degraffenreid said although she was injured she caught a ride home to get the children and during this time her husband left.

Degraffenreid said the victim was taken to a hospital for treatment for injuries caused by the wreck and by the beating she received.

The suspect was later arrested later that night at a residence in Porum by Muskogee County sheriff deputies, who turned him over to Mc-Intosh County lawmen.