CHOCOWINITY — Chocowinity Town Commissioner Curt Jenkins Jr. was arrested for a third time on assault charges.

According to officials, a warrant charging Jenkins with misdemeanor assault on a female and injury to personal property was taken out in Pitt County on Oct. 30. Jenkins turned himself in at the Beaufort County Magistrates’ Office on Tuesday morning.

Jenkins was elected to the Chocowinity Board of Commissioners last fall, but soon after he took office, was arrested on New Year’s Eve and charged with felony assault by strangulation. In August, Jenkins was arrested by Chocowinity police after an argument with a female guest at his home escalated to violence. He was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female. At the time, Jenkins said he was the one who called 911 during that incident, but declined to press charges against Dot Wills, though he was victim of assault.

“I went through the proper channels. I was the victim. And I was the one who ended up charged,” Jenkins said then.

The most recent incident involved the same woman from the Dec. 31 incident, a woman with whom authorities say Jenkins has sporadically been involved over the past several years.

Jenkins court date for the felony assault by strangulation charge is set for the end of the month in Pitt County. The dates for the misdemeanor charges are Dec. 2 and Dec. 8, in Pitt and Beaufort counties, respectively.

In a previous interview, Jenkins maintained his innocence and said he would not step down from the Chocowinity Board of Commissioners because of the charges. Town attorney Keith Mason said that unless a local government has passed a recall bill, there is no state statute governing the removal an elected official from office, except under really extreme conditions. Only 25 towns in the state have passed a recall bill, and Chocowinity is not one of them.