Psychological evaluations sought in Forrester cases

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Blaze Logan Forrester who is facing battery charges lodged against him for allegedly attacking people both inside and outside the county jail was back in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday where his lawyer announced that he would be filing motions for psychological evaluations in both cases pending against Forrester.

The first set of charges were filed against the 19-year-old Mountain Home resident after he allegedly became angry at his grandfather who told him to put a shirt on before leaving the house and he began punching the older man repeatedly about the face and head. The victim told law officers that he did not believe his grandson was ever going to stop hitting him.

Officers interviewed Forrester and he allegedly admitted that he had become angry with his grandfather and that he had struck his relative several times. In the probable cause affidavit filed in the case, officers reported when the grandfather came to the Mountain Home Police Department to report what had happened that he was bleeding from a cut over his left eye and from a cut on his left hand.

Forrester was arrested May 31st on charges related to the attack on his grandfather.

While in jail, Forrester is alleged to have punched a jailer while the officer was moving the inmate from C-Pod to the detox cell for his own protection. It was reported that Forrester had been spitting on the floor in the C-Pod area and other inmates were threatening to beat him up.

After being hit by Forrester, the jailer went behind the booking counter and retrieved a Taser. When Forrester saw the Taser, he is reported to have run into the detox cell and slammed the door behind him. The jailer told Forrester to get on the ground, but the inmate refused. The jailer opened the door to the detox cell and Forrester charged the jailer who then deployed the Taser against the inmate.

Forrester ran down the hall toward the housing area until he fell in front of a bathroom door and began yelling, “I’m done, I’m done”. When the jailer shut the Taser off, Forrester grabbed the lead wires and pulled on them breaking the connection.

The jailer went for another Taser and Forrester took that opportunity to run into the multi-use room and close the door behind him, holding it shut. A number of law officers arrived on the scene and assisted the jailer in opening the door, subduing Forrester and placing him into a restraint chair and moving him to the detox cell.

Once the psychological evaluations are ordered by the court, there will be no further activity in Forrester’s two cases until the results of the evaluations are received.

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