CATALDO — A 49-year-old Post Falls man was arrested Friday and charged in connection to robbery and assault incidents in two North Idaho counties.

Mark Kevin Hall was arrested by Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Idaho State Police officers on charges of burglary and aggravated assault from an incident which occurred midday Friday near Cataldo. He also was arrested on warrants out of Benewah County related to an incident earlier in the day.

KCSO deputies responded to the 22900 block of East Canyon Road at 12:12 p.m. Friday for a reported battery.

The victim stated she heard a knock at her door and looked out to see a black passenger car, deputies reported. She believed it was her father so she went and put her baby down to bed. As she exited her residence, she could hear noises from the garage. She approached the garage where a chair was thrown in her direction, immediately followed by a male reaching up with his left hand and placing it around her neck and pushing her up against the wall.

The suspect allegedly told the victim that if she followed him he would kill her, deputies reported. He was described as having a half-moon tattoo on his face and was last seen headed toward Rose Lake in the dark-colored passenger car.

A short time later, another call came in just east of this location off Hayden Loop and Canyon Road, where the same suspect as described earlier was reported to have backed his vehicle into some bushes and left it running. Deputies reported that he approached a residence and contacted the homeowner, advising his vehicle had broken down and asked for some tools.

The home owner retrieved some tools and offered to help the suspect, deputies reported. When he saw that the suspect’s vehicle was backed into the bushes and still running, he asked him about it. The suspect didn’t say anything and then got in his vehicle and drove off.

During these incidents, it was learned the same suspect may have been involved in a robbery and aggravated battery in St. Maries earlier in the day.

A short time later, a caller advised seeing someone in the bushes along Interstate 90 near milepost 35. Hall was found there, matching the description of the suspect in the two earlier incidents, deputies said, and was arrested by KSCO and Idaho State Police officers. He was booked into the Kootenai County Jail.

These incidents remain under investigation, the sheriff’s office reported.