WARWICK — A Central Falls man was charged with felony assault and kidnapping after he allegedly attacked a Johnston woman delivering newspapers early Saturday in the Wethersfield Commons condominium complex, off Jefferson Boulevard.

Julio A. Torres, 34, of 110 Foundry St., was arrested as he hid in a bedroom closet in a condo where, the police were told, his wife is a live-in caretaker. He resisted arrest and was subdued with pepper spray, the police said.

Kristen Fraioli, 32, an independent contractor who delivers The Providence Journal, told the police she had just dropped a newspaper at 582 Pocasset Court when a man came out and talked to her.

According to the police report: “He then hugged her and she got ‘weirded out’ and walked away to the condo across the street to deliver more papers. He came up behind her. When she realized he was behind her, she screamed.”

The man grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth, according to the report, then “started dragging her away to the condo where she had originally seen him. He said over and over, ‘Don’t scream. I’ll kill you.’

“She said that she told him that she couldn’t breathe, but he kept his hand on her mouth and nose. She tried to bite his hand, but it didn’t help. She finally got away from him. She squeezed out of his headlock because he was sweaty.”

Fraioli fled in her car and called the police shortly after 5 a.m., according to the report. Officers responding to 582 Pocasset Court saw a man in the garage who matched the description of Fraioli’s attacker. He was arrested inside.

Carmen Medina, 47, who had answered the door, told them later that she has been married to Torres for four years and that he sometimes stayed with her there.