HAMPTON — A 27-year-old Newport News man was arrested in connection with a March 22 abduction and assault, police here said.
Phillip Robert Brooks was apprehended following a car chase Saturday, police said. He is charged with abduction, assault and battery, failure to pay child support, felony evading and eluding, obstruction of justice, and providing false information to police.
The case
On March 22 at about 10:15 p.m., police responded to a local hospital to investigate an assault and abduction that happened in another location earlier that day.
A 25-year-old Hampton woman told police she and Brooks had a “verbal argument that turned physical,” authorities said.
The woman and Brooks are “known to each other,” police said.
Brooks allegedly assaulted the woman.
Brooks didn’t allow the woman to leave the home in the 100 block of Doolittle Road, police said.
Around 3 p.m. on Saturday officers saw Brooks in a vehicle in the 2100 block of West Mercury Boulevard.
“When officers began to approach the vehicle, the suspect drove away and a short vehicle pursuit ensued,” police said in a news release. “The suspect lost control of the vehicle that he was operating and fled on foot in the 1000 block of West Mercury Boulevard.”
Brooks was caught in the parking lot of a U-Haul Moving & Storage business in the 1000 of West Mercury Boulevard, police said.
