The newly minted Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor said Wednesday he doesn't think a 2005 domestic battery arrest should hurt him in the fall general election, although records in the case raise questions about his version of events.
Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker who was the surprise winner in the little-publicized contest among half a dozen candidates, had previously disclosed the arrest. He described it Wednesday as an argument with his drunken girlfriend and said he didn't lay a hand on her, though she called the police and had him taken into custody.
But the official police and court records show that the woman alleged Cohen put a knife to her throat and pushed her head against the wall.
In their October 14 arrest report detailing the complaint from the 24-year-old woman, Chicago police noted they observed "mild abrasions from knife wound" on her neck. They also noted "minor scars on her hand from her trying to defend herself against the arrestee swinging the knife at her." The report notes the woman was seen by ambulance personnel but not taken to a hospital.
Six months prior to that incident, Cohen's then-girlfriend was arrested for prostitution after a police investigation of a massage parlor in Glenview, she pleaded guilty to a prostitution charge. Cohen says he believed the woman was working as a "massage therapist."
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