Suspended Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov, who was arrested last month at a Torrance hospital where his wife was being treated, was charged today with felony domestic violence.
Voynov was charged with corporal injury to a spouse, with an allegation of causing great bodily injury, according to the District Attorney’s Office. He is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 1 in Torrance.
Voynov, 24, was arrested Oct. 20 at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance. Prosecutors said he and his wife were in an argument the previous night, and she suffered injuries to her eyebrow, cheek and neck.
Immediately following his arrest, he was suspended with pay by the National Hockey League.
According to Redondo Beach Lt. Joe Hoffman, police had gone to Voynov’s home in the 800 block of Avenue C the night of Oct. 19 in response to a report of a woman screaming and crying. Responding officers, however, found nobody at the home.
At about 1 a.m. Oct. 20, police received a call from the Torrance Police Department “concerning an adult female being treated in the Little Company of Mary Hospital emergency room for injuries that were possibly received during a domestic violence incident that had occurred earlier in the city of Redondo Beach,” Hoffman said.
“Redondo Beach police officers responded to the hospital and met with the victim, determining that a domestic violence incident did occur in Redondo Beach,” Hoffman said.
Voynov — whose first name is Viatcheslav — is from Chelyabinsk, Russia.
