A Marion County man, 30-year-old Michael Kimbrell of Flippin, has been charged with a felony count of aggravated assault following an incident in which four men attempted to take a backhoe from a residence along Fork Creek Lane in Marion County. Initial information indicated one man had been dropped off, with a second vehicle arriving with other individuals and weapons were involved.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed Tuesday, the incident occurred on a Sunday morning earlier this month when a woman called authorities to report the theft of the backhoe was in progress. She told dispatch she was washing dishes when she heard a noise and looked outside to see a man on the backhoe driving it up the driveway.
The woman said she ran down the road attempting to prevent the man from leaving with the backhoe. She said the man stopped briefly and then continued down the driveway, requiring her to move or she would have been run over.
She said a second man on the backhoe, later identified as Kimbrell, pushed her off when she climbed on the equipment in an attempt to keep the men from taking it. The woman then ran to get help from her brother.
The woman’s cousin told law enforcement he heard the backhoe start and thought nothing of it until he heard screaming and observed four men taking the equipment. He said he ran to the location of the backhoe to see what was going on when Kimbrell allegedly directed a shotgun at his face and said a repo was in progress.
The man said when he asked the four for paperwork to support the repo, they were unable to provide any. He told officers he observed Kimbrell allegedly shove the female off the backhoe and push her brother.
In addition to the felony count, Kimbrell was charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass. His bond was set at $20,000.
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