Lynn Man Charged With Assaulting Woman With Intent to Murder

A Lynn man was ordered held without bail Monday pending a dangerousness hearing following his arrest early Monday morning on multiple assault and intimidation charges.

Eric Newman, 46, of 12 Verdmont St., allegedly grabbed the throat of a Puritan Road woman and pressed his thumbs into her eyes and threatened her life, according to a Swampscott police report.

“ ... he then grabbed a screwdriver and while pressing it to the left side of her neck repeated 'I am going to kill you and your kids and if I don’t the Hells Angels will,'” the report states.

The woman told police Newman arrived to her Puritan Road apartment Sunday night shortly after 8:30 and asked her to let him stay there, saying his wife had kicked him out.

She said she let him sleep on the couch but later awakened during the night to the man in her bed.

She told him to get back on the couch and as he was doing so she told him to leave, the report states.

The woman told police that Newman threw a glass of wine at her.

And after she told him she was going to call Newman's wife he threw a beer bottle, which broke against a wall, and he attacked her with the screwdriver, states the report.

Swampscott police found Newman in bushes on Lincoln House Point.

Newman is charged with assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, threatening to commit a crime, intimidating a witness, resisting arrest and assault and battery.

He was arraigned Monday in Lynn District Court and is scheduled for a dangerousness hearing on Friday.