Police say the woman was seven weeks pregnant and the couple’s child was in the bedroom.

WACO, Texas — A 40-year-old Waco man was arrested after police say he sat on his pregnant wife and strangled her with both hands during a Monday morning dispute at a home on Misty Drive.

Jacob Daniel Vega is accused of aggravated assault family violence after officers were called to the residence around 11:50 a.m. April 13. An arrest affidavit says the woman told police she was strangled for two to three minutes and stopped resisting only when she went limp. The case now turns on the police account of the 911 call, the statements made at the home, the woman’s injuries and the felony charge filed after the encounter.

The call came late in the morning, when the woman told dispatchers, “I can’t take this anymore,” and said she had “got into it with someone,” according to the arrest affidavit. Officers went to the Misty Drive home and found Vega outside, walking toward a patrol car. Police said he told them he and his wife had been in an altercation. The affidavit says the fight began after Vega locked himself in a bedroom and his wife repeatedly beat on the door. Vega told officers he became angry, opened the door and moved a shoe rack from the couple’s room into the children’s bedroom. He said his wife then screamed at him and that he “lost it,” police wrote.

Vega told officers that he and his wife had been putting hands on each other before he sat on top of her and began to strangle her, according to the affidavit. Police said he then told officers they needed to check on her. Officers handcuffed Vega and placed him in the back of a patrol car while another officer went inside. The woman was sitting on the floor with the couple’s child crawling nearby. She told police her legs were numb and her throat hurt. Officers noted broken blood vessels in both eyes and redness on her neck, injuries police described in the charging document as part of the account of the alleged strangulation.

The woman told officers Vega used both hands around her throat while sitting on top of her, the affidavit says. She said the assault lasted about two to three minutes. Police said she was seven weeks pregnant at the time. The woman also told officers that the couple’s child was in the bedroom while the assault took place. The affidavit does not say the child was physically injured. It also does not give the child’s age. Police said the woman reported that Vega stopped only after she went limp in his hands. An ambulance was called, and the woman was taken to Hillcrest Hospital for evaluation.

The affidavit places the dispute inside a family home in a residential part of Waco, a Central Texas city about 100 miles northwest of Austin. Police said Vega and the woman had been married for six years and had lived together for the past two years. The filing does not name the woman, and authorities did not release a detailed medical update after she was taken to the hospital. The record available publicly describes pain, numbness and visible injuries, but it does not state whether doctors found longer-term harm to the woman or her pregnancy. Those medical details remain unknown in the public record.

Vega was taken to the McLennan County Jail after the arrest, police said. He faces a charge of aggravated assault family violence, listed by local reporting as a second-degree felony. Jail records later did not list him as an active inmate, indicating he was no longer shown in custody at the time those records were checked. The public reports do not state whether he has entered a plea or whether an attorney has appeared for him. The next steps in the case would move through court filings, any bond conditions, future hearings and review of the affidavit, 911 call, officer observations and medical records tied to the allegation.

The first account police received came from the woman’s short 911 call. The second came from Vega, who met officers outside and described the dispute before police reached the woman. The third came from the woman inside the home, where she described the alleged strangulation, her pain and the presence of the child. Those accounts overlap on key points, including that Vega was on top of her and used both hands, according to police. They also leave gaps. The affidavit does not explain what happened before the bedroom door was locked, what the child saw in detail or what the woman’s condition was after the hospital evaluation.

The case remains an allegation unless proven in court. As of May 7, Vega had been arrested and accused in the April 13 incident, the woman had been evaluated at Hillcrest Hospital, and the public record did not show a final court outcome.

Author note: Last updated May 7, 2026.