MARSHFIELD – Police have accused a 30-year-old Weymouth man of threatening to kill his girlfriend with an ax, striking her with a full beer can and choking her.

James M. Gentry pleaded innocent Wednesday in Plymouth District Court to the assault and battery charges and was released on $2,000 bail.



The alleged victim told police that Gentry assaulted and threatened her at a party Sunday evening on Ocean Street in Marshfield, according to court records.



The woman told police that she waited two days to report the alleged assault because Gentry warned her not to contact police.



The police report states that Gentry held an ax to the woman’s throat twice and grabbed her in a headlock and began to choke her.



Gentry faces additional charges of strangulation or suffocation, intimidation of a witness and assault with intent to murder.



He is due back in court Oct. 26. Gentry’s defense attorney at the arraignment was Jeffrey Clifford of Quincy.



