Crime & Safety

Police Accuse Man of Assault, Trying to Strangle Woman in Salem

Lowell man facing multiple charges, including assault of woman at La Quinta Inn in Salem.

U.S. Marshals and Derry police officers have arrested a Massachusetts man and charged him with multiple offenses, including second-degree assault and trying to strangle a woman in a hotel room in Salem.

Gerald Fraize, 38, of Lowell, was apprehended at a home in Derry on April 1, Salem police announced. He was wanted on a warrant stemming for allegations at La Quinta Inn in Salem on March 23.

Officers responded to the hotel for a report of an assault. Police said the victim claimed Fraize assaulted her in the hotel room they shared. Officers said they saw a white Ford Mustang, described as Fraize's, leaving the area and pursued it into Massachusetts, where pursuit was called off due to the danger of the chase.

Fraize was brought to Salem Police Department and held on $25,000 cash bail.

He is charged with second-degree assault (strangulation statute), simple assault, criminal mischief, criminal threatening, reckless conduct, disobeying a police officer, and driving after revocation


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