BAY CITY, MI -- A 35-year-old Bay City man is facing new felonies due to his pregnant girlfriend alleging he choked and punched her, leading to a miscarriage.

The night of Tuesday, March 31, a 36-year-old woman arrived at the Bay County Law Enforcement Center, requesting police assistance to retrieve some property from her Bay City home. The woman told police that her boyfriend, Drew A. Santos, had grabbed and choked her during an argument, and that while she had trouble breathing, she didn't pass out, court records show.

The woman had bruises on both arms, on her torso and on her buttocks, police wrote in their reports, contained in court records. The woman told police the arm bruising resulted from Santos having grabbed her a couple of days prior.

She also related to officers that a few weeks earlier, Santos punched her in the stomach, according to police reports contained in court records. She eventually went to the emergency room when she started bleeding and learned she had suffered a miscarriage, though she did not notify police when that incident happened, court records show.

The woman told officers she didn't want to press charges, but merely wanted them to accompany her to her place, where Santos still was, to retrieve items, court records show.

Police noted that the woman smelled of intoxicants. Officers took her to the Bay Area Women's Center, and an ambulance later transported her to McLaren Bay Region hospital. Staff there determined the woman's blood alcohol level was at 0.22, court records show.

At the woman's residence, police encountered Santos. He denied having struck his girlfriend, according to court records.

Police arrested Santos.

Bay County District Judge Mark E. Janer on Wednesday, April 1, arraigned Santos on two counts of domestic violence, third offense, and one count of assault by strangulation. Domestic violence is normally a 93-day misdemeanor, but the third offense notice increases it to a five-year felony. Assault by strangulation is punishable by 10 years' imprisonment.

Janer set Santos' bond at $100,000.

Santos is to appear for a preliminary examination before Janer at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, April 13.

The Michigan Department of Corrections discharged Santos on Feb. 27. A Saginaw County judge in May 2011 sentenced him to 13 months to four years on a conviction of assaulting, resisting or obstructing police.