May 26, 2010
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UMD Recruit Arrested on Domestic Assault Charge
CHN Staff Report
Minnesota-Duluth recruit Christopher Stafne was arrested on fifth-degree domestic assault charges Tuesday, after allegedly attacking his girlfriend in her College of St. Scholastica dorm room, the Duluth News-Tribune reported.
Stafne, 20, a native of Duluth, was released pending his next court appearance, June 15, and cannot have any contact with the alleged victim.
According to the police report, Stafne’s girlfriend told police he has an anger problem. She tried to avoid contact with him Monday, but Stafne showed up at her dorm room and demanded to see her cell phone, the police report said, upset thinking she might be cheating on him. They got into a shoving match, and he pushed her down and she fell, then the argument continued, and he hit her with a door, the report said.
The report said that the alleged victim has a bruise on her forearm, a scrape with redness on her neck and marks on her back. It goes on to say that the woman was asked if she thought Stafne would seriously injure or kill her. She said that she did not think so, that he just has anger issues.
Reportedly, Stafne also became agitated at police when they went to arrest him.
The News-Tribune reported that, according to court records, Stafne pleaded guilty in 2006 to fifth-degree assault in juvenile court and was adjudicated delinquent. That juvenile conviction is public information because it was a felony offense and Stafne was at least 16 years old at the time of the offense.
Stafne graduated from Denfeld High School in 2008, where he set a school record for goal-scoring with 47 goals and 77 points during the 2007-08 season. He committed to UMD in 2008 while in the USHL, where he played for Indiana, Fargo and Des Moines in a two-year span.
