MH woman gets prison time for cutting husband with knife

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Photos: Lorie L. Osborn and Christopher Osborn

A Mountain Home woman, charged with cutting her husband with a knife because she claimed he had given all of her clothing and jewelry to his girlfriend, pled no contest to a charge of second-degree domestic battery and was given three years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.

Forty-seven-year-old Lorie L. Osborn was arrested Sept. 13 after Mountain Home Police were called to a residence along East 10th Street in response to a report of a female needing a psychological evaluation.

Officers reported Osborn was “very frantic and upset” over her belief her husband had given away her property and her claim he had been “beating on her for several days.” The husband, 43-year-old Christopher Osborn, told police it was his wife who had been hitting him “all day.” According to two male witnesses at the Osborn home at the time of the incident, Lorie Osborn had cut her husband with a large kitchen knife four times.

The witnesses said she had also threatened to kill her husband and alleged Lorie Osborn had struck her husband several times. One of the witnesses gave police the knife reported to have been used by Lorie Osborn to cut her husband.

The facts in several cases involving the same players have become increasingly intertwined and confusing. After his wife was jailed for cutting him, Christopher Osborn was jailed himself in late October. He was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a defaced firearm and violating his parole. In addition, court records show Osborn is alleged to have beaten one of the witnesses to the altercation between himself and Lorie Osborn — Gregory Mayfield. Mayfield is also charged with breaking into a vehicle belonging to a Mountain Home policeman in an attempt to steal a coat because he was cold.



Photo: Gregory Michael Mayfield

Christopher and Lorie Osborn have been in trouble with the law prior to the current criminal charges being filed against them. In December 2016, they were arrested after police investigated reports the couple had made numerous purchases of pseudoephedrine pills — known to be a major ingredient in the making of methamphetamine.

Mountain Home Police Department officers, along with members of the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force, went to the couple’s home along South Street and found evidence they had been involved in at least attempting to produce the highly-addictive drug. Despite having all of the ingredients, the couple was reported to have skipped a step in the “home cooking” process and had not effectively produced methamphetamine.

They were initially charged with criminal attempt to manufacture the drug, along with possession of drug paraphernalia and possessing methamphetamine. Christopher Osborn was sentenced to five years in prison on his charges in late 2017, and Lorie Osborn was put on probation for eight years 12 months later.

When Lorie Osborn pled guilty to the new charges against her, the state dismissed a petition to revoke her probation in the 2016 drug case.

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