Bradley Sellers of rural Mountain Home, who is alleged to have threatened his mother with a hatchet, was in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and pled not guilty to aggravated assault charges filed against him.
His request to have his $25,000 bond lowered was denied by Judge Gordon Webb. The judge said after reviewing the allegations against Sellers, he felt the bond was reasonable.
Judge Webb also added conditions to apply if Sellers is ever able to post bond — including having no contact with the victim in the case and not to consume alcohol or drugs.
The original warrant in the case was issued March 1st, but Sellers was a fugitive until September 1st. He appeared on the “Most Wanted” list maintained by the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office. Sellers was taken into custody early this month by Mountain Home police after he bailed out of a vehicle in which he was a passenger when it was stopped by police near East Fourth and Foster Streets. Sellers was apprehended hiding behind a shed after a short search.
The 40-year-old Sellers got into trouble February 22nd when a Baxter County Deputy Sheriff responded to a domestic disturbance at an address along Timberlane Road.
The actual site of the incident was on Timberlane, but the deputy met the victim — Sellers’ 74-year-old mother — at another address where she had gone seeking refuge. She reported her son had threatened her with a hatchet, cursed her, threw something at her and kicked in a door.
The deputy then went to the address along Timberlane where Sellers and his mother live, but failed to make contact with Sellers.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Sellers’ mother reported her son had become angry with her because he had been put on probation and blamed his mother for his problems with the law.
The mother told the responding deputy during the confrontation, her son had gotten a hatchet and threw it at her. It stuck in the wall. She said she kept washing dishes, and Sellers then put the hatchet up to her neck and threatened to kill her.
The woman was able to get away from her son, went to her bedroom and eventually escaped the residence through a window and went to a neighbor’s house.
Sellers was ordered to reappear in Circuit Court January 18th.
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