Butler Twp. officers were called around 2 p.m. Feb. 8 to a home in the 3900 block of Little York Road after a caller reported that a man assaulted and strangled his girlfriend, according to a release from Butler Twp. police.
When officers arrived, the man and woman were barricaded in the basement. Police got a search warrant, and with assistance from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, went inside and rescued the woman.
The woman was taken to a local hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
A negotiator eventually talked Rowles into coming out.
Rowles also faces charges in an unrelated case from June 2020 following his Feb. 10 indictment by a Montgomery County grand jury for assault of a police officer, improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, having weapons under disability for a prior drug conviction, aggravated possession of drugs and obstructing official business.
Rowles remains in the Montgomery County Jail, where he has been held since his Feb. 8 arrest by Butler Twp. police.
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