A 49-year-old local man has been charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly threatened his wife’s life with a handgun on May 18. William Boyce Butler was arrested after a sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a Lee Braswell Road home to check out reports of a domestic assault involving a firearm. According to Sheriff Patrick Ray, the officer made contact with a female who told him that her husband was intoxicated, and there was an argument about him being intoxicated.