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WATERLOO – A Waterloo man has been arrested on domestic assault charges after police were called to a disturbance and gunfire at his home Wednesday night.

Waterloo police arrested Benjamin Charles Potter, 28, of 5804 Blue Sage Road, for aggravated domestic assault, a misdemeanor. He was released from the Black Hawk County Jail on Thursday morning.

No injuries were reported in the incident.

According to police, Potter had returned from a bar around 9 p.m. and became belligerent, at one point breaking a TV set. He then threatened his fiancé with a .357-caliber revolver, she left the house, and he allegedly fired the weapon inside the home, damaging a bedroom wall, court records state.

When officers arrived, Potter emerged from the attached garage holding a firearm, record state. He returned to the garage and then exited with his hands up and was taken into custody without incident.

He was taken to the police station and transferred to a local hospital for a suspected alcohol overdose.

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