For further information regarding any of the following cases, call the district attorney's office at (918) 775-9131.
Billy J. Crocker, 25, of Fort Smith, Ark., was charged May 3 with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery and malicious injury to a motor vehicle, records show.
At about 11:30 p.m. Jan. 1, 2003, Roland Major Cindy Smith investigated a report of a fight involving Crocker and a Vian resident. The Vian resident and his girlfriend reported they were present at a Roland residence at the same time Crocker was also at the residence.
The victim said he got into an argument and an altercation that involved pushing and shoving between Crocker and himself. The victim said he and his girlfriend left the residence with their infant. As they were walking to their car, Crocker reportedly shoved the girlfriend and the baby. Crocker threw a car jack at the car, then picked it up and continued hitting the car, which is registered to the victim's mother.
The victim reported Crocker started hitting him on the head with the car jack. Damage to the vehicle is estimated at about $2,425.37.
An arrest warrant was issued April 25 for Crocker and Special District Judge Dennis Sprouse set bail at $12,500.
Jerry W. Hardbarger, 24, of Sallisaw was charged May 3 with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, records show.
At about 2:30 p.m. on April 29, Cpl. Houston Murray and Lt. Dennis Neff with the Sallisaw Police department investigated a report of a man lying in a yard at a Sallisaw residence. The man was reportedly bleeding. The officers found a large puddle of blood in the yard near the porch, but found no one outside.
The victim was found inside the house in a bedroom. The officers reported the victim was sitting on a blood-soaked bed and had sustained severe injuries to his head, back, shoulders, legs and arms. The victim also had boot prints on his back and his teeth had been kicked out. He was transported by Southwest Emergency Medical Service to the emergency room at Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw.
The officers continued searching the house where they found a bloodstained rock. The victim told the officers eight men from Marble City had beat him up, one of them being Hardbarger.
Hardbarger was arrested and blood was found on the bottom of his boots. He was transported to the Sequoyah County Jail where he is being held on a $10,000 bond.
Kelly Leann Harden, 23, of Sallisaw was charged May 3 with embezzlement by employee, records show.
On Oct. 20 Lt. John Hobbs with the Choctaw Nation tribal police department investigated a report from Randel Dillard, head of security, that $120 was missing from Blue Ribbon Downs' bookkeeper's petty cash.
Dillard reported the bookkeeper said this was not the first time she had discovered there was money missing. She said there was $120 missing in September that she paid back herself.
Another employee told Dillard that $550 was missing from a locked filing cabinet. Dillard reported $20 missing from an employee's purse.
Hobbs interviewed Harden on Oct. 23. Hobbs reported Harden confessed to stealing a total of about $550 on various occasions and from different employees.
As of Dec. 21, Harden had not made restitution to Blue Ribbon Downs.
An arrest warrant was issued April 25 for Harden and Sprouse set bail at $5,000.
Amanda J. Jackson, 24, of Sallisaw was charged May 3 with unlawfully transferring body fluids upon a city employee, records show.
At about 11:20 p.m. April 28 Cpl. Murray and Lt. Neff investigated a report of an assault on a jailer at the Sallisaw City Jail by Jackson.
Murray said a bail bondsman went to the jail to bond out Jackson when Jackson became combative. The bail bondsman declined to bond out Jackson, at which point Jackson became even more combative and spit in the jailer's face. When Jackson attempted to hit the jailer, the jailer restrained her and put her back in the cell.
Jackson was transferred to the Sequoyah County Jail where she was released April 29 on a $9,000 bond.
Robert Lewis Risinger, 40, of Sallisaw was charged May 3 with domestic abuse - second offense, records show.
At about 11 p.m. April 15 Cpl. Murray investigated a report that Rising attacked and injured his wife of 10 years while she was asleep. Murray reported the victim was bleeding from her left eye and temple.
An arrest warrant was issued April 25 for Risinger and Sprouse ordered him held without bond.
Charles Russell Schaal, 42, of Sallisaw was charged May 3 with uttering a forged instrument, knowingly concealing stolen property and actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor, records show.
At about 3:40 p.m. April 23, Deputies Herbert Hutchinson and Lance Yoakum, and Sallisaw Police Officer Jeff Murray investigated a report from a Sallisaw convenience store that Schaal tried to cash a stolen check in the amount of $45. When the clerk refused to cash the check, she referred him to the manager of the store who approved the cashing of the check.
At about 5 p.m. April 23, Hutchinson took Schaal into custody for public intoxication. While performing a vehicle inventory Hutchinson found several checks that had been reported stolen.
Schaal was arrested and transported to the Sequoyah County Jail where he is being held on a $70,000 bond.
