EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Lane County prosecutors have decided to dismiss a domestic violence charge against a 38-year-old Eugene man whose house police surrounded Dec. 1 because they thought he was holding his wife hostage.
Shane Schnetzky had actually left his home two hours earlier, but was arrested and spent eight days in jail on suspicion of menacing with a gun afterward.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Patty Perlow says they don’t have enough evidence to charge Schnetzky, who has a clean record.
The Eugene Register-Guard reports that the dismissal follows a litany of issues between Schnetzky and his wife, who has accused of him of sexual assault and once said that he tried to poison her.
