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A former Mountain Home resident charged with domestic violence after fighting a girlfriend and his own mother appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court last Thursday.
Thirty-one-year-old Chad Allen Fry entered a not guilty plea to two counts of third-degree domestic battery. He was ordered to reappear in circuit court in November.
Circuit Judge Gordon Webb granted Fry’s request to have an ankle monitor removed. Fry said he had a job prospect at a canoe rental business, but it required him to be in the water, and he could not take the job as long as he was wearing the electronic tracking device.
Fry told the court he continues living with his mother in Ash Flat.
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 along Greenbrier 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 been “several.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, Fry was reported to have been “heavily intoxicated.”
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, refusing to follow commands. He was finally put in handcuffs and taken to the Marion County jail. He was sentenced to 60 days in the Marion County jail and 12 months of supervised probation.
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