Photo: Kenneth Edward Morosky
A Mountain Home man whose latest criminal charges stem from an alleged rampage triggered when he couldn’t find his tranquilizers was in Baxter County Circuit Court last week.
During his court appearance, 31-year-old Kenneth Edward Morosky entered a not guilty plea to the new charges filed against him — third-degree assault and attempting to bring contraband into the Baxter County Detention Center.
Morosky was arrested May 13 when deputies from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office responded to a violent domestic disturbance call at a residence along Big Pond Place, possibly involving a gun.
A woman called 911 and said Morosky was tearing up items in the residence and was allegedly threatening to shoot up the house, if the female resident did not find his tranquilizers.
At one point, Morosky retreated to a bathroom, where he was reported to have continued his threats to use the pistol.
The female victim talked Morosky into coming to the bathroom door to speak to the deputies. Morosky told them he had made threats to use the gun “to get her attention” but didn’t mean any harm. He said he made no threats except to shoot up the house.
According to the probable cause affidavit, after an unarmed Morosky left the bathroom, he is alleged to have said he needed the pills “to sell for money.”
The deputies reported “several times” Morosky became loud and aggressive. When he started walking toward the victim, deputies stepped between them.
When the deputies took Morosky to the county jail, his charges grew more serious. In the changing room, a jailer found a syringe with an uncapped needle in the Mountain Home man’s rectum that had apparently been inserted needle side first.
The syringe contained no liquid, but did have a brown residue on the inside.
While the incident at the house resulted in a misdemeanor assault on a family or household member charge, bringing contraband onto the jail is a Class C felony.
Morosky now has three active criminal cases.
-Drug-related charges were filed against him in mid-July last year.
-He was accused of theft of property in late July last year
-The case containing charges of assault and attempting to sneak drugs into the jail was opened May 27.
Court records show two women have filed petitions for orders of protection to keep Morosky away from them. One was dismissed for lack of prosecution and the most recent one at the request of the victim.
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