Highland woman facing battery charges
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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EDWARDSVILLE A Highland woman faces multiple battery charges after incidents Wednesday and Thursday.
Kortney A. Talbot, 23, of Highland, was charged May 28 with aggravated domestic battery and two counts of aggravated battery, all Class 2 felonies.
The cases were presented by the Highland Police Department.
According to court documents, on May 26 Talbot allegedly strangled a family or household member; and on May 27 she spit in a Highland police officer’s face.
Bail was set at $50,000 for the domestic battery, and $73,000 for the aggravated battery charges.
In an unrelated case, an Imperial, Missouri man faces both domestic and aggravated battery charges.