Angry Husband Uses Backhoe to Destroy Wife’s Car

Angry husband uses backhoe to destroy wife’s car
published July 17, 2006 1:09 pm
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A Clyde woman told deputies she had been out doing crack cocaine, and when she returned home Friday morning, her husband became upset and destroyed her car with a backhoe, according to a police report on file at the Haywood County Sheriff’s Office.

After a physical confrontation between the husband and wife, the wife left and met her father at a nearby overpass. Deputies arrived to talk to the woman who said her husband started yelling at her while she was lying in bed. He then went out and beat on her car with a backhoe before coming inside again. The argument became physical and the husband held the woman down by placing his knee on her neck, according to the sheriff’s office report.

The woman told deputies her husband would have scratches on his face from where she was defending herself. When deputies went to talk to the husband at the couple’s house on Hyder Mountain Road, he said his wife had been gone for “a couple of days smoking crack,” the report said. The husband told deputies that his wife called him around midnight saying she was coming home, but didn’t return until 7 a.m. He said he did get upset and destroy her car, and had warned her in the past that he would do so if she was out smoking crack again. The husband also told deputies that he held the woman down because she was trying to scratch him. Deputies noted in a report that the husband had scratches all over his face and neck.

While speaking with the husband, the officers who stayed with the wife and her father at the overpass called 911 because the father started having chest pain. He was taken to Haywood Regional Medical Center, the report said. James Tyler Bryson, 36, and Amanda Bryson, 29, both of 2339 Hyder Mountain Road, were charged with domestic assault, the report said.