A 24-year-old Whidbey Island man is accused of kidnapping a woman and seriously assaulting a man who tried to intervene, according to documents filed in Island County Superior Court.

Prosecutors charged Martin Cole, Jr. with kidnapping in the second degree and assault in the second degree Jan. 18. Court documents list Cole’s home address as both Clinton and Coupeville.

Cole posted a $20,000 bail bond Jan. 17.

The investigative report by Island County Sheriff’s Deputy Brent Durley states that the incident began Jan. 13 when Cole was at Toby’s Tavern in Coupeville with a woman and they got into a fight over a sweater she was wearing.

When they left to drive home to her Fort Casey Road residence, Cole insisted that she go to Prairie Center to buy beer. He pulled out a handgun, pointed it at her face and demanded that she park in the grocery store parking lot, Durley wrote.

The woman was very scared and shaky, the report says, and complied with Cole.

Later, Cole fell asleep at the woman’s home and she hid his gun in the laundry room. But when Cole woke up the next morning, he “was acting very aggressive,” Durley wrote.

The woman’s friend, a young man, decided to talk to Cole and make him leave the home. Cole hit the man, knocking him to the ground, and “proceeded to kick and stomp” the man in the face, Durley wrote. Cole then grabbed a broken pool stick and hit the man over the head with it, the reports says.

Cole ordered the woman to get into her car and drive them to his grandmother’s home, according to the report. A deputy later arrested Cole at the Central Whidbey home.

A doctor at Whidbey General Hospital found that the man’s jaw was fractured in two places and he had a broken nose. He had to undergo surgery to repair the fractured jaw, according to court documents.

If convicted of the charges, Cole would face a standard sentencing range of 13 to 17 months in prison.