Photo: Christopher Jason Lynne
A Missouri man who threw an alcohol-fueled hissy fit in the Baxter County jail late last year following a traffic stop was in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Jason Lynne of Gainesville pled guilty to his charges and was sentenced to five years probation by Circuit Judge Gordon Webb, during a video session of court. A hold has been placed on Lynne by Missouri authorities, and he will be returned there now that his Baxter County case has been completed.
Lynne was also involved in a recent fracas in the jail involving a number of other inmates. When one of the prisoners attacked another one – several more, including Lynne, rushed past a jailer and came to the victim’s defense. They were all charged with third-degree battery, a misdemeanor.
In his initial case, Lynne and a female passenger, 30-year-old Talisa Elaine Deshazo of West Plains, were stopped by a Mountain Home policeman on Iowa Street.
Photo: Talisa Elaine Deshazo
Before Deshazo was subdued and taken into custody, she was alleged to have resisted officers, hit one in the lip, spewed threats, spit food, cursed and kicked at most everyone in sight.
Deshazo threatened to cause trouble with officers with their superiors, among some of her less vulgar comments.
During an earlier court appearance, both Lynne and Deshazo asked to be released on their own recognizance without having to put up any money. Circuit Judge John Putman said no way.
When Lynne made his request, the judge said he would not allow him to be released on a cashless OR bond. He told Lynne, “If I had set your bond, it would have been much higher given what you did.” The bond was set at $5,000 at the outset of both cases.
When she appeared before him for arraignment, an emotional Deshazo told Judge Putman, “I am ashamed of what I did. I was drunk, passed out, asleep.”
Her appeal fell on deaf ears. In turning down her request for an OR bond, Judge Putman told Deshazo he was happy she was ashamed of her conduct, “because you certainly should be.”
At the time of the traffic stop, Lynne was reported to have been driving an SUV. The Mountain Home Police Department officer said he noticed the “strong odor” of alcohol coming from the vehicle. Lynne initially admitted to having “one shot.” He changed his story, when a test showed an alcohol content of .12 in his blood. He then said he had “had enough shots to catch a buzz.”
Lynne got out of the vehicle, but Deshazo stayed inside. The officer opened the front passenger door and saw a small open whiskey bottle under her feet.
As the officer who made the stop was waiting on backup, Deshazo began cursing the him, saying she would “break him”
When other officers arrived, they attempted to remove the woman from the vehicle, but she began yelling and kicking and hit one of the officers in the lip.
Even after a stun gun was used on Deshazo, she continued to resist. The officers were finally able to get her on the ground and into handcuffs after a number of attempts.
Deshazo continued to fight the officers, even after cuffed. She spit food on an officer and kicked him, according to the probable cause affidavit.
After she was placed in the backseat of the patrol unit, she was reported to have hit the window a number of times.
Deshazo had not run out of energy after reaching the jail. As jailers were attempting to get her out of the patrol car, she threatened, kicked and spit on a number of them.
Lynne got into the act after arriving at the detention center. When an officer went to meet with him, Lynne was reported to have become irate and spit in the man’s face. At one point, Lynne stood on a chair and lunged at the officer, cursed and kicked a table in the room. Because of his actions, he was placed in a restraint chair.
Lynne first refused to be placed in the chair and had to be carried. He took the opportunity to kick at the officer and a jailer multiple times.
From her booking photo, a smiling Deshazo is also pictured in a restraint chair.
Charges against one or both include second-degree battery on a police officer, terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, public intoxication, driving while intoxicated and other traffic violations.
Deshazo pled to the charges against her in early February and was put on probation for four years. Lynne has been in jail since being arrested in November last year.
According to Missouri court records, Deshazo has run into a number of legal problems in that state, including assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and mixing alcohol with driving or being a passenger in a vehicle.
She is in a Missouri women’s prison. According to prison records, she has used six different names in various times – Talisa E. Deshazo, Telisa Elaine Deshazo, Talisa Collins, Telisa Elaine Collins and Talisa E. Collins.
She was apparently married to a man named Collins at one point.
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