A preliminary hearing transcript provides new information about a home invasion and sexual assault in Holland Tuesday that ended in a suspect’s arrest.
HOLLAND, Mich. — A transcript from the preliminary hearing of a man accused of sexually assaulting a Holland woman in her home early Tuesday morning is providing new information of the incident.
Dominique Asher Hawkins is accused of first-degree home invasion, second-degree criminal sexual conduct and assaulting, resisting, obstructing a police officer.
Laurence Matzen, an officer for the Holland Department of Public Safety, testified as a witness at the hearing Tuesday.
Matzen’s testimony detailed the home invasion and sexual assault of the victim on the morning of April 16.
Matzen said that at about 2 a.m., officers were dispatched to a home on West 24th Street after receiving a report from the victim that someone was in her home.
According to Matzen’s testimony, the victim was alone in her home with their 6-year-old daughter when …