Kiski Township woman faces felony charge after man tells cops she strangled him during argument

A Kiski Township woman faces a felony charge after a man told police she put her hands around his neck until he couldn’t breathe during an argument.

Robin Ray Bohannon, 35, of State Route 156 was charged with felony strangulation as well as simple assault and harassment in connection with the Jan. 28 incident, according to her arrest papers.

Bohannon is being detained in Armstrong County Jail after failing to post a $10,000 cash bond.

She faces a preliminary hearing Feb. 9 before District Judge J. Gary DeComo.

Several days before the incident, Bohannon was the subject of a search that lasted eight hours after she was reported missing and endangered.

Police from Kiski and Gilpin townships, firefighters from Kiski and North Apollo and bloodhounds from the Greensburg Fire Department searched for Bohannon after she left a residence along Route 156 about 1:30 p.m. Jan. 23 wearing only jeans and a T-shirt, police said.

She was found about 10 p.m. in the town of Indiana. Police did not reveal the circumstances involved in locating her.

A Kiski Township police sergeant wrote in a criminal complaint on the Jan. 28 incident that he responded to Bohannon’s home for a report of a physical assault around 12:15 p.m. and was met by a man, who was not identified in court papers.

The man told police Bohannon had been drinking heavily throughout the day and started a verbal argument “over an unknown reason” and began slapping him in the face, according to the complaint.

The man told investigators he was unable to breathe while she was choking him but managed to push her away and call 911, the complaint said.

The right side of the man’s face was red and swollen and he had red marks along his neck that were consistent with strangulation, police said.

Bohannon was “belligerent” when she spoke to police, had slurred speech that made her unintelligible and was unable to stand on her own “due to her level of intoxication,” the complaint said.

She admitted to slapping the man but denied strangling him, according to the complaint.