Newton County authorities have made an arrest after a county resident reported her neighbor allegedly placed two bags of rotten deer meat on her porch, as well as a rotten deer hide with maggots on it.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the woman told law enforcement she awoke after hearing several knocks on the door of her residence. She said when she looked outside, she saw her neighbor, later identified as 41-year-old Jeffery Saxon Stephens of Compton, in her yard between her shed and her vehicles.
The woman said she watched Stephens walk into the woods before going towards his residence.
She then turned on the porch light and noticed the two bags and the deer hide she believes Stephens dumped there.
She told the sheriff’s deputy there has been an ongoing issue with Stephens, and she and the sheriff’s office have warned him multiple times about trespassing on her property.
When the deputy made contact with Stephens, he denied having placed the items on his neighbor’s porch, saying three African Americans ran through his yard carrying a green cooler full of deer meat and placed it at the woman’s residence.
The deputy asked Stephens how he was aware of the deer meat on the porch, since the only thing he had mentioned was the trespassing allegation.
The deputy reported the Compton man was extremely intoxicated and informed him the deer was road kill he found in the ditch and had let it rot for a year just so he could dump it on the neighbor’s porch.
About an hour later, the victim called the sheriff’s office alleging Stephens was threatening her and her boyfriend. She said Stephens was reportedly screaming through the woods that he would kill her boyfriend “over and over.”
Stephens has been charged with a felony count of terroristic threatening, as well as misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and littering. Online jail records indicate his bond was set at $5,980.
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