Isabella County sheriff’s deputies investigated two separate assaults in Union Township last week. The Morning Sun reports that the first case involved a 40-year-old Mt. Pleasant man who picked up his Beaverton girlfriend, she choked him in the car and hit the man in the face when they got home. She was arrested for domestic assault. The second, involved a 58-year-old Union Township woman who’d just had back surgery. Her male friend choked her to the point where she couldn’t breathe and then took her phone.