A rural Mountain Home man, 40-year-old Bradley Sellers, who is expected to face charges of aggravated assault after threatening to kill his 74-year-old mother with a hatchet during an argument in late February, was taken into custody early Friday morning after a foot pursuit. Sellers had been placed on the Most Wanted list at Baxter County Sheriff’s Office in late June.Information from the Mountain Home Police Department indicates Sellers’ arrest followed a traffic stop near East Fourth and Foster Streets. When the vehicle stopped, Sellers, who was a passenger, jumped out a window.
A foot pursuit ensued for about two blocks involving Sellers jumping two chain link fences and a privacy fence and leading a Police Officer to lose sight of him. Sellers is well known to law enforcement for previous incidents involving foot pursuits.
With the help of an Arkansas State Police officer and two members of the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, four city officers set up a perimeter search of the area going house to house looking for Sellers. He was discovered hiding behind a shed after about a 15-minute search and surrendered without incident.
Sellers’ mother has reported to law enforcement officers her son became angry with her early this year because he had been put on probation in an unrelated case.
She has said he began to curse her, threw something at her and, at one point, he was alleged to have taken a hatchet, put it to his mother’s neck and threatened to kill her.
The woman was able to get away from her son, went to her bedroom, left the residence through a window, and went to a neighbor’s house.
Sellers’ mother filed a petition seeking an order of protection on February 23, the day after the argument that took place at the residence along Timberland Road. She details arguments and physical altercations with her son in the petition, listing a number of incidents in which her son punched her, hit her over the head and made threats of various kinds.
In the petition, she reports her son saying that he wanted to “kill you so bad. I’m going to do it sooner or later.” The mother said she told her son to “go ahead and do it. I don’t care. If you feel that’s what you want to do, just get it over with.”
The mother writes in her petition she is not taking the action to put her son in jail, since she does not feel that will help him. She writes he knows he needs help but is “too stubborn” to seek assistance. She says the petition is an effort to “find help for my son. Please help me.”
In addition, a woman, who identifies herself as Sellers’ girlfriend, has filed a similar petition for a protective order. In the more than eight-page, handwritten affidavit accompanying the request for the protective order, the woman outlines various incidents of physical and verbal abuse she contends she endured during their relationship. She filed her petition in late February.
His bond has been set at $26,745 and, as a condition of his bond, he was ordered not to have any contact with his mother, the victim in the case.
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