EDMESTON – The Chenango County Sheriff's Office arrested a Town of Edmeston man on an active arrest warrant on Tuesday for assault in the first degree.

Sheriff Ernest R. Cutting Jr. reported that Daniel L. Taylor, 33, of Edmeston, was arrested Tuesday following an investigation into an assault that occurred on July 27 in the Village of Oxford.

Following the investigation, the Sheriff's Office found that Taylor allegedly struck a 29-year-old Norwich man in the head several times with a large piece of wood.