The woman told the responding deputy that Holly, who had been staying with her temporarily to help with a move, had been drinking when he returned from dinner around 12:40 a.m. and grew agitated after she asked him to move out within a week. An argument broke out when he began packing his belongings and took a roughly $60 wireless charger that belonged to her. She blocked the doorway and demanded it back, deputies wrote in the affidavit.
According to the report, Holly pushed the woman with his chest and shoulder while trying to get past her, and the confrontation spilled from the doorway into the kitchen. There, deputies say he wrapped both hands around her neck and choked her against the kitchen island until she had trouble breathing. The two fell to the floor, where police say he continued choking her and banged her head against a cabinet twice before gathering his belongings and leaving on foot. The woman called 911 during the struggle, and her phone was knocked across the room in the process, deputies said.
Deputies later located Holly at his mother’s residence, where he declined to answer questions about the incident and said he wanted to speak with an attorney first, the affidavit states. He was arrested at 3:03 a.m. and booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on a felony charge of domestic battery by strangulation. He was released more than 24 hours later on $3,000 bond…