Chocowinity Town Commissioner Curt Jenkins was arrested for a second time in two weeks on Friday night.

The latest charges come from Pitt County, according to law enforcement officials. Jenkins was charged with assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury in the presence of a minor, assault on a child under the age of 12 and interfering with emergency communications. Due to the domestic nature of the first two charges, Jenkins was not issued bond and as of Saturday evening was still detained in the Beaufort County Detention Center, according to Lt. Kelly Cox with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. For the latter two charges, Jenkins was a given a $15,000 bond.

The circumstances surrounding the most recent charges were unclear at the time of print.

Jenkins has faced assault charges on four prior occasions: Dec. 31, 2015, he was charged with felony assault by strangulation; in August and October of 2016, he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault on a female. Those charges against him were dismissed by a judge, Jenkins said.

On Nov. 15, Jenkins and his brother, John Jenkins, were both charged with felony assault after a sheriff’s office investigation into an incident that occurred on Hodges Road in Chocowinity. According to the victim, Jesse Taylor, and a witness, the brothers assaulted a tenant of a property owned by the Jenkins’ mother, in a continuance of an argument between tenant and landlord. The tenant suffered a broken jaw and broken or cracked ribs, BCSO Chief Deputy Charlie Rose said at the time. Both Jenkins brothers denied they were the perpetrators.

Curt Jenkins is serving his first term on Chocowinity’s Board of Commissioners. On Nov. 8, he made an unsuccessful bid to unseat longtime Chocowinity Mayor Jimmy Mobley.

In an interview after the 2016 assault charges, Jenkins said he would not step down from the Chocowinity Board of Commissioners. At the time, town attorney Keith Mason said that unless a local government has passed a recall bill, there is no state statute governing the removal of 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, Mason said.