51 year old Arnold James Lawrence Cote was arrested on April 23rd after a drunken confrontation with his girlfriend.
The victim was driving Cote to the liquor store when he began waving the machete around and hitting her with the back side of the blade. When they stopped in the parking lot, she ran up to another woman and asked for help---as it turned out, she was the wife of a senior-ranking Rothesay Police official.
Cote will be back in court of June 7th.
