An Olean, N.Y., man will face a preliminary hearing Wednesday on allegations that he beat two women at the America’s Best Value Inn on East Main Street.
Damon L. Maull, 31, of 403 W. Riverside Drive, is charged with two counts of simple assault, one count of escape and one count of flight to avoid apprehension, all second-degree misdemeanors; and two counts of harassment, summary offenses.
According to court records, at 3 a.m. Feb. 28, police responded to the Inn on East Main Street for a domestic disturbance in room 31 or 32. When an officer approached the room, a male jumped out of a car and ran into room 31. Officers knocked on the door, but the occupants refused to open it.
Officers eventually obtained the master key, announced their intentions and opened the door. Maull was inside the room, as were two females.The women told police Maull had brought them to the hotel and “beat them bad,” court records read. The women said they had been punched and choked, and officers observed blood and bruising on the two, the records indicated.
Maull was arraigned Jan. 4, and will have a preliminary hearing before District Judge Rich Luther at 1 p.m. Wednesday. He is incarcerated on $25,000 bail in this case.
And, according to court records, he is incarcerated in a New York state prison in Marcy on a charge of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance from an April 2015 arrest in Olean for allegedly trying to sell drugs. The New York State Department of Corrections website indicates his conditional release date is June 19.
According to the site, he was incarcerated in October 2007 on charges of attempted assault and criminal mischief from an incident in Cattaraugus County. And in 2014 on a parole violation.
Maull also served two years in the Cattaraugus County Jail beginning in 2005 for stabbing another man to death during a fight in Olean on Oct. 30, 2004.
