A South Dakota man was arrested early Monday morning, accused of false imprisonment and spousal abuse. According to a Sheriff’s report, deputies were called to the 58500 block of 29 Palms Highway in Yucca Valley at 1:47 a.m. Monday morning for a domestic disturbance. Sheriff’s Deputy E. Gonzalez found a woman who said that her boyfriend, Joseph Ducheneaux, 45, had punched, kicked and choked her inside their trailer. The woman tried to escape several times but Ducheneaux pulled her back inside by her hair and her shirt. The woman sustained swelling to the left side of her face, cuts to her legs, and redness to her neck. She said that at one time she nearly lost consciousness after being choked. Joseph Ducheneaux was arrested for investigation of false imprisonment and felony spouse abuse, booked into the Morongo Basin Jail with his bail set at $100,000.
