Sallisaw Men Plead Guilty In Assault Case
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Justin Annesley Jr., 20, and Kevin Bradley Wyckoff, 22, both of Sallisaw, waived their right to a preliminary hearing Thursday in Sequoyah County District Court before Special District Judge Dennis Sprouse on assault and kidnapping charges.

Both will plead guilty at their arraignment set for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 6 before District Judge John C. Garrett, court records show.

The two suspects were charged July 22 with assault with a dangerous weapon (iron skillet); kidnapping; robbery by force and fear; injury to wires; contributing to the delinquency of a minor; and tempering with a vehicle.

Represented by lawyers Gerald Hunter and John Sawney, the two are accused of robbing and assaulting Mary Montgomery of Sallisaw. At about 2:45 p.m. July 17, Sallisaw police officers were sent to 810 S. Cedar St. in Sallisaw to investigate a report of an assault that had just taken place. Lt. Dennis Neff located the subjects walking northwest of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sallisaw that matched the description of the suspects given by the victim, records show.

Montgomery told police officers that when she arrived home at about 1:30 p.m., Montgomery discovered Annesley and Wyckoff hiding in her daughter's closet. When Montgomery attempted to phone the police, her daughter, a juvenile, tore the phone out of the wall and blocked the door to her room. Montgomery told the officers that she picked up a skillet as protection against the suspects, and ordered the two men to leave her home.

Annesley took the skillet and hit Montgomery over the head. Annesley and Wyckoff then grabbed knives lying nearby and held her on the floor, threatening to stab her. Taking money from her mother, the daughter and the two suspects then left the residence, disabling Montgomery's car as they left, records show.

Montgomery called the police from a neighbor's house. The policemen reported that Montgomery had wounds and lacerations on her head and a large abrasion on her right arm. She was treated and released from Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw.

Montgomery said she had to call the police on July 16 to report that her daughter was fighting with her. At that time, Annesley and Wyckoff were issued verbal trespass warnings from the officers banning the two men from Montgomery's property.

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