From the courts: District Court

A Harlem man received three years probation Monday in District Court for hitting his estranged wife in the head with a golf club last year.

Darrin G. Healy, born in 1973, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for criminal endangerment, a felony. The sentence is part of a plea deal that dismissed two felony charges of assault with a weapon and a misdemeanor partner of family member assault charge.

If Healy abides by the conditions of his sentence, he can have the offense struck off his record.

Police dispatch received a call May 18, 2016, from a woman who said she got in an argument with her husband, Healy, during which he hit her in the head with a golf club.

Officers responded and found blood on the stairs of the residence and on the woman’s hands, face and back of head.

The woman told officers she and Healy had been drinking at someone’s house. When she left, she said Healy — from whom she’d been trying to get divorced for three years — followed her. She told Healy he could stay at her house as long as he slept on the couch or the bedroom in the basement. Healy told her he would be going to bed with her, to which she replied he wasn’t. The two then argued about other people they’d been seeing.

During the argument, the woman told officers, Healy held her down on the couch with a golf club across her throat. She said she pushed Healy away and that’s when he was hit in the back of the head with the gold club. She said she punched Healy in self-defense and then ran to her landlord.

When officers spoke to Healy, he was bleeding from his nose and “he appeared extremely intoxicated,” charging documents say.  

Healy told officers he was on the couch when the woman got mad at him about his seeing someone else. She hit him in the leg and right side of his face with the golf club. The officer did not see any injury on Healy’s face, charging documents say. The officer asked to see Healy’s leg and there was no indication that he’d been recently injured.

The officer asked Healy how the woman got the injuries she had shown them and Healy said he didn’t know and that she must have fallen.