Superior Court Associate Judge Perry B. Inos raised to $25,000 cash the previous $2,000 bail order set for Prescott Jonathan Cabrera, a Kagman III resident.
After the hearing, Inos remanded Cabrera to the custody of the Department of Corrections.
Cabrera is being held on charges of disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and criminal mischief.
The court appointed Assistant Public Defender Adam Miles to represent Cabrera while Assistant Attorney General Eli Golob is prosecuting the case.
Detective Peter A. Aldan said police received a call on Dec. 5, at about 11:56 a.m., regarding the incident.
Aldan said on the previous night, Cabrera picked up his wife and her aunt at a baby shower in San Vicente.
While the defendant was backing out of their aunt’s driveway in Chalan Kiya, Mrs. Cabrera told her husband that she was going to use the car that night.
“Prescott then punched [her] on her left temple area,” Aldan said.
Cabrera accused his wife of lying to him and of wanting to use the car so she could go out.
Using her cell phone, the wife called her aunt and asked if she could go back because she was arguing with her husband.
“Prescott grabbed the cell phone and threw it out of the passenger window,” Aldan said.
The husband then pulled over and parked by the Chalan Kiya Industrial Center warehouses.
“Now I am gonna damage your mom’s car! Payback is a bitch!” Cabrera told his wife.
The detective said the husband kicked the left rear passenger door, the left side rear fender and the left rear tail lights.
The wife tried to stop her husband who continued kicking the car, Aldan said.
Cabrera later instructed his wife to drive the car to Kagman. Upon reaching As Terlaje, the husband shouted at his wife, and told her to drive faster. He “then punched [her] a second time on her right temple area,” police said.
She later told police that her husband punched her hard.
