Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a James Street, Summerville address last week after reports of an altercation between family members.  When deputies arrived on the scene, they learned that a woman had assaulted a family member during the course of an argument.  According to a report from the sheriff’s office, the woman became angry when she learned that a family member planned to lock up her late-mother’s house due to suspicious activity in the neighborhood.  The woman reportedly grabbed a chopping ax and threatened a family member who was, according to deputies “grilling and having a couple of beers” in the yard of the residence.  The woman was screaming and cursing and overturned the grill in the course of the confrontation.  The woman also reportedly took the family members cell phone.  Thirty-eight-year-old Crystal Dawn Bates was arrested and charged with aggravated assault under the family violence act, criminal damage to property and interfering with an emergency telephone call and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.