NORWICH – Since March the Norwich Police Department had been searching for a man out on parole who was wanted for allegedly entering a home in the City of Norwich, uninvited, and assaulting a female victim, three days after police responded to a domestic dispute between the two.

Steven A. Shanholtzer, 26, was arrested by the Village of Herkimer Police Department March 19 after he allegedly mugged a victim at around midnight. Following his arrested officers at the department reported that Shanholtzer refused to cooperate with his processing and attempted to mislead police about his identity.

The Herkimer Police charged him with second degree robbery, third degree assault, obstructing government administration, false impersonation, resisting arrest and petit larceny.

What the department didn’t know at the time was that Shanholtzer was on the run from the Norwich City Police Department and the New York State Division of Parole for a violent felony he had allegedly committed just four days earlier.