A man is in jail after allegedly trying to strangle a woman Friday afternoon.

Waite Park Police Chief David Bentrud says officers went to the 200 block of 3rd Street South just after 4:30 p.m. They found a woman who had scratches and marks on her neck. The woman said the marks had come from 66-year-old Melvin Odeen Davis of Waite Park.

Davis was arrested for felony domestic strangulation, he is currently being held in the Stearns County Jail.