A man who pleaded guilty after being accused of choking his mother in front of his 11-year-old son has started a five-year prison term.
Justin Noward was charged with aggravated domestic battery by strangling and domestic battery causing bodily harm in a Nov. 8 incident.
Court documents say the 34-year-old Noward got on top of his mother and started choking her after she entered a bedroom where he was sleeping to retrieve a laptop. Noward's son said he heard his grandmother gasp for air.
Noward has accumulated nearly 20 years of prison for six felonies over the past 13 years.
