40 year-old Assistant Attorney General Susan R. Gerber was arrested Saturday in north Portland on charges of Domestic Violence against her wife of five years, 38 year-old Janice Dulle. Dulle says she “confronted Gerber about an affair she suspected Gerber had with another woman” and was in the process of having the locks on their home changed when the assault occured.

A locksmith witnessed Gerber punching Dulle with a closed fist. Officer’s noticed red marks around Dulle’s neck and bruises on her arm.

According to the Oregonian, “Gerber works in Oregon Attorney General John Kroger’s office, litigating cases involving inmates who are fighting their convictions and cases involving the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board, which oversees convicts deemed insane.”

Gerber did not appear at her arraignment hearing, having checked herself into in-patient treatment for “unspecified treatment.”

Read more here