Enraged Paw Paw man assaulted woman, threatened her with a chainsaw after she pulled out in front of him: sheriff

PAW PAW (WWJ) — A Southwest Michigan man is facing charges after police say he attacked a woman in a road rage incident last week, in Van Buren County.

According to the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, a woman was driving on on 38th Avenue in Paw Paw on Oct. 5, when she pulled out in front of a man pulling a trailer with a pickup truck, cutting him off.

Van Buren County Sheriff Dan Abbott said this made the man — later identified as 68 year old Leonard Yonkman of Paw Paw — “go into a rage.”…

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