Photo: Chad Allen Fry
A Mountain Home man charged with domestic violence after striking a girlfriend and his own mother appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
The session was held on a video hookup connecting all of the parties.
Thirty-one-year-old Chad Allen Fry is charged with two counts of third-degree domestic battery. He first said he wanted to plead guilty but Circuit Judge Gordon Webb said he would not accept the plea until Fry had a chance to meet with an attorney.
Fry asked that his bond be lowered and Judge Webb reduced the $25,000 bond to $15,000. Judge Webb asked Fry where he would live and he said with his mother. His mother was one of the victims in the current case. Fry was asked if his mother would allow him to live in her home and he replied, “Yeah, she’s my mom.” Judge Webb ordered confirmation be sought from Fry’s mother that she had no objections to the arrangement.
It is not the first time Fry has been charged with domestic violence. He pled guilty to similar allegations in Marion County in 2018.
The recent charges in Baxter County stem from an argument Fry had with his girlfriend that turned physical. When his mother attempted to separate the two, her son is alleged to have hit her in the mouth with a closed fist.
Mountain Home Police responded to the domestic altercation report at a residence on the night of March 23.
The girlfriend told police she had been arguing with Fry when he began hitting her. She said she was not aware of how many times he struck her, but that it was “several.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, Fry was reported to have been “heavily intoxicated” at the time.
Fry had also been charged with assaulting a girlfriend in Marion County in late 2018. The victim said she had been with Fry at a bar when she decided to go back to their shared apartment in Bull Shoals.
Her decision “agitated” Fry, but she left despite his protests.
After she got back to the apartment, Fry was reported to have returned “in a rage.”
The victim said he immediately began assaulting her – throwing her around the apartment, choking her, biting her face and striking her with his fists.
She said she passed out, as Fry was choking her, and when she awoke, most of her clothing had been removed.
The victim said she then sought refuge in a neighbor’s apartment.
She reported Fry followed, throwing her down in the parking lot of the apartment complex. She said she was able to get away from him and made it to the neighbor’s unit.
When Fry arrived at the neighbor’s, the female resident confronted him at the doorway and he struck her in the left cheek and jaw.
The neighbor told Fry she was calling the police, and he fled.
He was eventually located hiding in a small closet of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend.
Fry reportedly became belligerent and non-compliant. He was finally put in handcuffs and taken to the Marion County jail.
Fry was sentenced to 60 days in the Marion County jail and 12 months of supervised probation in his earlier case.
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