A 74-year-old man was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon Sept. 2 for allegedly hitting his female neighbor with a metal pipe.

Sequoyah County Deputies arrested Andy Delbert Mannon of Vian Aug. 30 after he and neighbor Sparkle Curran, 31, had an altercation.

According to the report, Curran told deputies that Mannon was trying to push down the fence surrounding her property where she keeps her horses. Curran said she went outside to stop him and to keep her horses from getting out and Mannon struck her in the left elbow with a length of fence pipe. Curran said Mannon kicked her in the rear and pushed her into the fence, which caused her to cut her arm. She told deputies that when she started yelling for her husband to help Mannon told her, “Go ahead and yell I’ll go home and get my gun.”

The deputies went to Mannon’s residence across the county road and asked him to tell them what happened. Mannon said, “That is my property,” and said the road was his too.

Curran said the two have had an ongoing problem for the last two years.

“This man has pushed me, thrown me on a barbwire fence and tried to tear up my fence to let my horses out,” Curran said.

Curran said Mannon claims that part of the land the Curran family lives on is his land.

“He’s across the county road from our house. He does not own this land,” Curran said.

“I did not hit her with that pipe,” Mannon said “I lifted the pipe up trying to move it and she grabbed it from me.”

“This is over about a foot of land,” he said. “I wanted to make the county road bigger and I told her I was going to move the fence to make the road wider. She claimed that was her land.”

Curran explained that the deputies advised her to get a protective order. She said she asked for one but it was denied.

“Our county will not protect me. They haven’t been for the last two years. What is it going to take? Them hauling me off with a bullet in my head?” Curran questioned. “Some one is going to have to help me.”

Curran said there have been several incidents between her and Mannon and said this is the first incident with Lockhart as sheriff.

“This was the first time Mannon has been arrested,” Curran said.

John David Luton, Sequoyah County first assistant district attorney, said Friday they are doing, have been doing and will continue to do whatever is needed to help.

According to the personnel in the Sequoyah County Court Clerk’s office, the protective order was denied because it is a person not related to Curran and the order being requested did not meet statutory requirements.

Luton explained that the emergency protective order which Curran was requesting is limited to people living within the same house, people who are or where dating and family members or stalkers.

Sequoyah County Sheriff Ron Lockhart said he has increased the patrols in the area where Curran lives.

“I gave Curran an easy way to contact me. We don’t want her victimized twice. We will pursue the problem if something else arises,” Lockhart said.

Mannon was arraigned in Sequoyah County District Court in Sallisaw Wednesday.