ROCKINGHAM — A man is facing nearly a dozen charges related to domestic assault, according to a press release issued Thursday by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies arrived at the home of a family member of 32-year-old Matthew Barrett Mumford to arrest him Wednesday afternoon, according to investigators. When he refused to come out, the sheriff’s office Special Response Team was called in.
Mumford finally came out on his own accord and was taken into custody without further incident, according to the sheriff’s office.
He is accused of assaulting a woman on three occasions — with “items that could be used as a deadly weapon” — threatening to kill her, and refusing to allow her to leave his East Rockingham home for “extended periods of time,” investigators say.
The alleged victim filed the report on Aug. 26, according to the sheriff’s office.
He is facing: three counts of assault on a female; two counts of communicating threats; and one count each of first-degree forcible sex offense, kidnapping, felonious restraint, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, assault inflicting serious bodily injury and interfering with emergency communications.
He was booked into the Richmond County Jail where he is being held without bond, pending a court appearance on Sept. 9.
Online court records show Mumford is also facing a seat belt infraction.
He has several convictions dating back to 2008, according to online records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.
That year, Mumford was convicted of possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a revoked license, and driving after consuming a controlled substance under the age of 21, records show.
He spent about five weeks behind bars when his probation was revoked on those convictions and he was convicted of two additional counts of driving with a revoked license and a safety inspection violation in 2009.
He was again convicted of driving with a revoked license in 2010, as well as simple assault.
Mumford wound up behind bars again in 2011 when he was convicted of using profane, harassing or threatening language over the phone and his probation on the 2010 convictions was revoked.
The following year, he was convicted on two counts of violating a protective order.
Mumford was given probation in 2014 when convicted on two counts of felony breaking and entering — which was revoked the following year after being convicted on two additional counts of breaking and entering (one in Scotland County) and violating a protective order. He served seven months for those crimes.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
