Paris police responded to a disturbance in the 200 block of Bonham Street and were told that 57 year old Arnold Vandergriff had choked a woman and threatened several people with a hammer. Both the woman and Vandergriff had left the scene. Officers located the woman who confirmed that she had been choked. Vandergriff was later located in the 1400 block of SE 6th and admitted to choking her. He was arrested for family violence.