A Marion County man, 45-year-old Shane Cagle of Summit, has been charged with a felony count of terroristic threatening following an incident in which he allegedly threatened two people via text messaging. The messages included threats of bodily harm to the two individuals, including taking similar action to sunflowers he uprooted in the woman’s yard.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed Monday, a Marion County sheriff’s deputy responded to the woman’s residence along State Highway 14 South on the morning of September 9th.
The man and the woman at the residence told the officer Cagle had reportedly been repeatedly driving by her residence and through the yard. In the process, he had uprooted and broken the woman’s sunflowers. He had also been shining his headlights into the windows of her residence, honking the horn of his vehicle and sending threatening text messages to the woman, as well as placing multiple phone calls to her.
The messaging continued as the officer was on the scene, with the deputy directing her to text Cagle and tell him to stop contacting her. Cagle directed the woman to have the man inside with her come out of the residence. He said by not complying, the woman was ending two lives. He also commented about his shooting accuracy from a distance.
The deputy located Cagle at a residence in Summit, where he allegedly admitted to making the calls and the texts, saying he and the female had been in a relationship, and he was upset because they had recently broken up.
Cagle was also charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief, harassment and harassing communications.
His bond was set at $10,000.
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