Facebook fighter's husband tried to keep her home, she tells judge

YOUNGSTOWN

A woman arrested with her husband early Tuesday morning for accepting a challenge to fight issued on Facebook said during her arraignment her husband warned her to stay home.

Lakeisha Cotton, 22, told Visiting Judge Dino Prassinos in Youngstown Municipal Court on Wednesday her husband David, 25, did not want her to accept the Internet challenge when Judge Prassinos asked if the couple was like the famed criminal couple Bonnie and Clyde.

“We are like Bonnie and Clyde, but he told me to stay home and I wouldn’t listen,” Lakeisha Cotton said.

The judge set a bond of $20,000 each for the Cottons, who were arraigned on a charge of aggravated burglary. They were arrested at an apartment in the 100 block of West Boston Avenue about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday.

A woman there told police she posted on Facebook the challenge to fight Lakeisha Cotton, and Lakeisha had her husband drive her to the home.

Read more about the outcome in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.