Chalmette man wanted for beating a woman he knew with a pull-up bar arrested in Lafourche Parish and returned to St. Bernard; Also, 2 men arrested for possession of $2,000 in stolen copper

John Lyerly, also booked with possession of stolen copper wire.

Norman Clark, booked with possession of $2,000 worth of stolen copper wire

Marcel McCormick: Marcel McCormick, booked with aggravated battery for beating a woman he knew with a metal pull-up bar until she was unconscious and was hospitalized.

A Chalmette man wanted for beating a woman he knew with a metal pull-up bar and then fleeing was arrested in Lafourche Parish and has been returned to St. Bernard Parish Prison, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Marcel McCormick, 42, whose last address was on Chalmette Avenue, was located by a U.S. Marshal’s Service fugitive task force to which a St. Bernard sheriff’s detective is assigned.

McCormick was wanted on arrest warrants alleging felony aggravated second-degree battery and domestic battery in the Jan. 4 beating of a 47-year-old Chalmette woman he had lived with, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

She said McCormick attacked her in their home during an argument.

The woman was struck with a metal pull-up bar to her head, face and rib area, knocking her out, the sheriff said.

She said when she regained consciousness, McCormick had gone to sleep, allowing her to escape and drive to her mother’s residence in Chalmette and call 911. She was hospitalized for treatment and released several days later.

Sheriff’s deputies looked for McCormick but he had fled the home.

Warrants for his arrest were obtained from a judge and a U.S. Marshal’s fugitive task force learned he was in Lafourche Parish, where he was arrested Jan. 23 with the assistance of local authorities.

McCormick was returned to St. Bernard Parish Prison for prosecution on Jan. 25. He is being held in lieu of bonf set Monday at $25,000.

In an unrelated case, two New Orleans men were arrested Jan. 21 for possession of stolen things, which was about $2,000 worth of copper wire taken in a business burglary in New Orleans Jan. 17, The items were scrapped the same day at a Chalmette scrap metal dealer, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Norman Clark, 61, 2805 Law St., and John Lyerly, 52, no address available, were arrested by the Sheriff’s Office at the Chalmette scrap dealership when they returned on Jan. 21 to sell other metals, Sheriff Pohlmann said. Clark had sold the scrap metal identified as stolen on Jan 17 and Lyerly was with him at the time, according to a Sheriff’s Office report on the arrests.

Harbor Police were investigating a burglary of the copper wire from a marine business on France Road in New Orleans, which happened early Jan. 17, and the copper was recovered at the scrap metal dealership in Chalmette later that morning. The stolen property has been returned to the owners, the sheriff said.

Clark, booked into St. Bernard Parish Prison, has been released on bond of $7,500. Lyerly is jailed in lieu of $7,500 bond.