BATON ROUGE — Police said Wednesday they had accused a Baton Rouge man of holding a woman against her will, strangling her and injuring her dog.

Niquel Deon Harris, 36, was accused of false imprisonment and other charges after keeping a woman from leaving her Glen Oaks area home on July 25 while he was armed with a knife and a metal pipe, police said.

Investigators said Harris and the victim had argued. During a later confrontation, he allegedly attempted to strangle the woman twice but she was able to break free.

"The victim stated the accused armed himself with a kitchen knife and stood in front (of) the door all while preventing her from leaving stating, 'I will use this if you try to leave,'" an affidavit says.

When she tried to exit, police said, Harris pulled her back into the ho

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