State Attorney Reopens Domestic Violence Case Against Cantonment Man

December 3, 2019

The State Attorney’s Office has reopened a domestic violence case against a Cantonment man.

John Chess Foster, 50, is again charged with domestic battery by strangulation and battery in a June 2019 incident. He is being held in the Escambia County Jail without bond.

The case was originally dropped in late October because prosecutors were unable to locate the victim to testify.

In June, a woman who said she had lived with Foster for the past three years alleged he had been abusing her. She told deputies that Foster slapped her, kicked in the stomach and hit her across the arm with a belt. She said Foster grabbed her by the throat while placing his other had over the top of her nose and face. She said he pressed her against a wall using bathroom door while telling her he hoped her neck would break and she would die, according to an arrest report, before releasing her and sticking her in the left temple.

When she woke up the following morning and packed to leave, Foster searched her things, asking what she was stealing, the report states, before kicking her in the left hip.

In their report, deputies noted that the woman had a bruise under her eye, bruising on her neck, a bruise consistent with a belt strike on her arm and boot print on her shorts near her left hip. She refused medical treatment.

Foster was in the news in October when he was charged with human trafficking, sexual battery, false imprisonment and battery. Those charges were later dropped because the victim did not cooperate with investigators and information provided by a neighbor contradicted the victim’s claims.

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2 Responses to “State Attorney Reopens Domestic Violence Case Against Cantonment Man”

  1. Shelley on December 3rd, 2019 12:44 pm

    What has happened for the case to be reopened?

  2. Wayne on December 3rd, 2019 10:42 am

    AND on the last report that was on this site…said the other neighbor said none of it took place is why the charges were dropped. Which neighbor are you going to listen too.
    Shoddy investigation indeed with 2 neighbors and 2 different stories…now if we can have a 3rd neighbor come out …..the show would be complete

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