A domestic altercation last November in Bull Shoals has led to 30-year-old Chad Fry being sentenced to a year of supervised probation and 60 days in the Boone County jail in connection with an incident involving a female with whom he shared an apartment.
According to online court documents filed Thursday, Fry’s sentence follows his guilty plea to misdemeanor charges of assault, battery, resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The terms of his negotiated plea reduced his original felony count of assault to a misdemeanor.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the female victim was found at an apartment on Crestline Drive in Bull Shoals with inflamed red marks around both sides of her neck, red marks on her face and blood on the corners of her mouth.
The victim told law enforcement her dispute with Fry occurred after the two returned to their apartment, after spending the early part of the evening at a local bar. When she decided to return home early, her decision agitated Fry.
When they returned home, Fry allegedly was enraged and proceeded to physically assault the woman by throwing her around the apartment, choking her, biting her face, and striking her with his fists.
The victim was able to escape and entered another apartment, where Fry reportedly confronted another woman and struck her in her left cheek and jaw through an open screen door.
When the neighbor told Fry she was calling the police, he fled.
The victim whom Fry assaulted in their shared apartment was transported by ambulance to Baxter Regional Medical Center.
The officer continued his search for Fry throughout the evening, returning later that night to the apartment the man shared with the victim. Inside the residence, he discovered Fry hiding in a small closet adjacent to the apartment’s kitchenette.
Fry refused to exit the closet but eventually complied after facing a threat of tasing. He continued to resist arrest, leading to a Flippin police officer responding to assist.
When Fry was searched, two clear plastic bags containing a leafy green substance consistent with marijuana were located, along with a small blue glass pipe.
During a follow-up interview with the victim after she had been released from the hospital, the woman told law enforcement she was choked by Fry until she lost consciousness.
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