Photo: Cody Sallee
A Cotter man, 26-year-old Cody Sallee, entered a guilty plea to charges of terroristic threatening and injecting his cellmate with a drug and was given 10 years in prison with four suspended and six to serve. The plea came during a video session of Baxter County Circuit Court Wednesday.
Sallee’s most recent charge came late last month when he was already locked up in the Baxter County Detention Center. According to the probable cause affidavit, Sallee was seen on surveillance cameras injecting his cellmate, 53-year-old Thomas Wheeler, in the neck.
Wheeler had been booked into the jail in mid-February on multiple drug possession charges and was also being held on a revocation bench warrant.
After a search, jail staff found a syringe in an empty seasoning container near Sallee’s bunk.
Sallee was also arrested in early March last year when he entered a local hair salon and told an individual he had been chosen by God and that she would die within hours.
He told the woman she would soon “be in Heaven” and would have “super powers.”
Sallee has been in jail since being arrested on the terroristic threatening charge last year and will receive credit for 490 days served.
The state dismissed a revocation petition filed in a 2017 case after Sallee picked up his newer charges.
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