BATON ROUGE - A man who was arrested in August for holding his girlfriend at knife-point and saying he would kill her following cheating allegations was charged in a nearly identical case more than a decade earlier.

In July, an arrest warrant was filed for 36-year-old Niquel Harris. It says that Harris accused his live-in girlfriend of cheating after a male friend sent him text messages. He then tried to strangle her and grab her to hold her down. The document says that when she got away, Harris grabbed a knife and said, "I will use this if you try to leave." Documents said that there was a child in the home during the disturbance, and Harris struck the woman's dog in the back with a metal pole.

Harris was arrested August 20 for domestic abuse battery with strangulation, false imprisonme

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