PORT ANGELES — City Councilman Grant Munro was charged with fourth-degree assault domestic violence Wednesday after a report that he assaulted his wife on Tuesday night.
Originally, it was the Port Angeles police who were dispatched to Munro’s residence on the 1700 block of Woodhaven Lane at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
After determining that the residence was that of a member of the City Council officers asked that the Clallam County Sheriff’s Department handle the call, said Undersheriff Rich Sill.
Deputies arrested Munro, 58, and booked him into the Clallam County jail for investigation of fourth-degree assault.
On Wednesday he appeared in Clallam County District Court after spending the night in jail and was released on his personal recognizance.
The citation filed in District Court says that Munro “intentionally committed non-consensual touching or placed another in fear of bodily harm.”
A no-contact order was signed prohibiting Munro from contacting his wife, Carol, 57, and he was ordered to surrender firearms.
Munro told the court that he would find a lawyer, records say.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 27.
Munro did not return a message left on his mobile phone seeking comment Wednesday afternoon.
Sill said he did not know the circumstances of the assault.
A Clallam Bay High School graduate, Munro worked as an executive for Rayonier Inc. before retiring and returning to Port Angeles in 2003.
The same year he was elected to the City Council and began serving his four-year term in 2004.