Man arrested after incident in Sisters street

Deputies arrested a Hillsboro man on Sunday morning, March 18, after he allegedly assaulted his wife on a Sisters street.

An off duty Black Butte Ranch police officer and a sheriff's deputy responded to a 7 a.m. report of a woman screaming for someone to call police.

According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, the deputy arrived to find a Jeep Cherokee partially blocking South Fir Street, just south of Hood Avenue. The driveline was clearly broken.

The alleged victim said that she and her husband, David Wayne Hughes, 25, their two young children and another woman were driving back over the mountains after attending a wedding in LaPine.

She said her husband had gotten very drunk the night before and beat her up. He was reportedly sleeping it off in the car

as they passed through Sisters.

The woman said she pulled off the highway to find the public restrooms. Hughes allegedly woke up and became violent. The woman said she parked the car and Hughes jumped out. She locked the doors and he allegedly began screaming and pounding on the windows.

The woman told deputies that she feared he would break a window, injuring the children, so she unlocked the door. Hughes then allegedly grabbed the woman by the neck and threw her to the ground. He got in the car and rammed the gear shift back and forth several times until the driveline broke with a loud bang.

He then got out of the car and started to leave before allegedly turning back to throw his wife to the ground a second time. Hughes took off again and was tracked down by a deputy, who arrested him for fourth degree assault in the presence of a minor child -- a felony.

The alleged victim had bumps on her head and red marks on her neck, according to deputies.

According to sheriff's office reports, this was the fourth time Hughes had been arrested for assaulting his wife.

The woman noted that they were trying to patch the relationship up over the weekend, but that it hadn't worked out.

Hughes allegedly acknowledged that he had consumed alcohol in violation of his probation from previous assault convictions. He also allegedly acknowledged having "an anger management problem."