in prison for beating woman

Staff Writer

A Buffalo man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after he admitted to beating a woman.

Nick Bevis, 24, of 935 Katelyn's Way pleaded guilty to criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature. Circuit Judge John C. Hayes III of Rock Hill gave Bevis credit for 71 days he served in the Union County Jail.

Bevis was arrested on Nov. 26, 2007. According to a Union County Sheriff's Office report, law enforcement got involved in the case after the victim, who then was 18, sought treatment in the emergency room at Wallace Thomson Hospital. The victim told Deputy Roger Hill that she had gotten into a fight with several other women and they had caused her injuries. A relative who was with the victim told Hill that Bevis had assaulted the girl and he had told her if the victim reported this he would kill her.

Hill then talked to the victim and told her she could be arrested if she filed a police report that was false. She admitted Bevis had assaulted her.

Bevis's criminal record included an arrest when he was 21 for assaulting his elderly grandparents.

Also on Tuesday Tiffany Roark, 27, of 3038 River Road, Union, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of forgery and two counts of petit larceny. Hayes gave Miss Roark a 10-year prison sentence, suspended it to three years of active time and five years of probation, ordered her to complete time in an abuse treatment unit and pay restitution of $749.