By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
ASSARIA - An Assaria man was arrested Thursday on multiple requested charges, including aggravated battery, kidnapping, and child endangerment, after an incident that began Wednesday evening.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said that a 25-year-old Assaria woman called at approximately 7:20 a.m. Thursday to report that her husband had struck her multiple times, handcuffed her to a pole in the basement for a while overnight, and then kept her locked in the basement. He also allegedly made threats against her should she contact law enforcement. The woman said he only let her out of the basement when one of their young children began crying and needed to be tended to. Two small children - an infant and a toddler - were in the house at the time of the incident.
The incident occurred after the couple got into an argument Wednesday night at approximately 8 p.m., Soldan said.
After her husband went to work Thursday morning, the woman went to a neighbor's to make the call, as her husband, identified as Kevin M. Walden, 38, of Assaria, had taken her cellphone, Soldan said.
According to Soldan, Walden was arrested at his place of work on the following requested charges.
●Aggravated battery
●Kidnapping
●Two counts of child endangerment
●Domestic battery
●Intimidation of a witness