MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (WHNT) — A man with a previous domestic violence conviction was indicted by a Colbert County grand jury on a new domestic violence charge, court documents show.
Robert Bradley Bolden was placed in the Colbert County Jail on Friday. Jail records show he was charged with domestic violence by strangulation or suffocation, two counts of third-degree domestic violence, domestic violence- menacing, unlawful imprisonment and interfering with a domestic violence call.
Court documents show that in the August 2025 term, a grand jury indicted Bolden for the domestic violence by strangulation charge as well as one of the third-degree domestic violence charges. The third-degree domestic violence charge on the indictment states that Bolden has a prior conviction for domestic violence by strangulation or suffocation.
His bond is currently set at $30,000.
The affidavit of these charges states that on May 10, the Muscle Shoals Police Department received a call from Colbert County 911 of a domestic violence situation at a house on Fox Loop.
MSPD said Officer Clayton Terry was the first to arrive at the scene.
Terry stated in his report that he saw an adult woman and two children climbing out of the window of the house. The document says the woman was screaming for help and said the man inside the house was going to hurt them. The affidavit says Terry got the woman and children to safety, and then when other MSPD officers arrived at the scene, they went inside and found the man, identified as Bolden, in the garage.
The document says Terry asked Bolden why people were crawling out of the windows of the house and screaming for help. Bolden then responded that he didn’t know why and said the woman had been taking hydrocodone for her broken arm. When Terry asked Bolden what had happened, the document says Bolden replied by saying, “Nothing!”
The affidavit says Bolden told the officers he had just returned home with his brother and asked the woman for the phone, but she refused to give it to him.
After asking the woman what happened, Terry reported that the woman said Bolden had been drinking all day and around 6:45 p.m., he entered the house and came directly over to her and “demanded” the car keys. The document says Bolden then began choking her, and despite her attempts to calm the situation, the woman said Bolden continued to be aggressive until he was able to get his phone. After he received a call from his mom, the woman told Terry that he had gone into the garage and fallen asleep for almost three hours.
During the time Bolden was reportedly asleep, the woman said she Facetimed her friend. While she was on the phone “for several hours,” the report says Bolden came up to the woman and began choking her again.
The report says the woman got free and ran up to her 11-year-old son’s room.
The woman told Terry that Bolden had been acting “erratic and yelling about the dog” and eventually grabbed the dog by the collar and physically threw it outside. By this time, the woman said her friend on the phone had already called 911.
The woman told the officers that Bolden followed her up to her child’s room and “smashed in the bedroom door, entered the room and slapped the phone from [her] hand.”
The affidavit says the 11-year-old boy intervened and told Bolden not to hit his mother, and the woman told Bolden the police were on the way. Then, the document says Bolden told the woman he’d “kill her with a knife if she ever called the police on him again.”
The woman says in the report that when Bolden choked her, he lifted her up by the throat to the point she couldn’t speak, breathe, or even think, fearing she was going to die.
Terry stated in his report that he determined to place Bolden under arrest after listening to the woman’s statement, and also said there was video evidence of Bolden forcing his way into the child’s bedroom, slapping the woman in the face, and knocking the phone from her hand. The evidence was recorded by the woman’s friend, who was on FaceTime.
Court documents state that in March 2023, Bolden was indicted for the other charges listed in his 2025 Colbert County Jail record: Third-degree domestic violence, domestic violence menacing, unlawful imprisonment and interference with a domestic violence emergency call.
The document states that in 2022, Bolden slapped a different woman to the point of her blacking out, injured that woman with a knife, restrained her and obstructed her from calling for help.
Bolden was indicted on these charges in March 2023 but was not arrested until April 27, 2025. He was released the next day on a $30,000 bond, 12 days before the May 10 incident.
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