Police Reports: 23-Year-Old Chokes Family Member, Punches Through Door, Threatens With Bottle of Tequila

The following information was supplied by the Geneva Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Geneva police arrested John Becht, 23, of Geneva on charges of aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery bodily harm to a family member, domestic battery insulting/provoking contact, criminal damage to property and assault after an incident at around 6 a.m. Jan. 5 at a residence in the 1200 block of Herrington Road, Geneva police reports said. The victim told police he and Becht were involved in a verbal argument when the victim began to video Becht with his iPhone. Becht slapped the phone from the victim’s hand, and when the victim went to pickup the phone, Becht placed him in a two-handed choke hold. Becht later entered the victim and his wife’s bedroom and held an empty bottle of tequila by the neck in a threatening manner. The …

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