Jeremy Thorgesen
A man who told police during an incident in September last year that he was in a dark hole “and can’t seem to suck up out of it,” pled guilty to a number of charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Forty-three-year-old Jeremy Thorgesen of Mountain Home was sentenced to six years probation by Circuit Judge John Putman. Thorgesen was charged with possession of LSD, resisting arrest, 2nd degree battery and driving while intoxicated/drugs.
The situation began when an Arkansas State Police trooper was sitting at the intersection of Cardinal Drive and Highway 5 South just before 7:30 a.m. on September 5 last year.
According to the trooper’s report, the driver of a pickup truck traveling on Cardinal pulled onto Highway 5 South and stopped. He told the trooper “something was wrong” with the driver of the van that had come up beside his truck.
At that point, the trooper said the van’s driver, identified as Thorgesen, began yelling with his rhetoric seeming to invite a fight.
In the report, Thorgesen was described as glassy-eyed, sweating heavily and dazed looking.
Thorgesen was alleged to have told the trooper he did not intend to be taken peacefully. He did fight with officers and during the altercation, Thorgesen attempted to run into a traffic lane of Highway 5 South. Thorgesen continued to struggle with the trooper and, at one point, both men went to the ground.
Thorgesen was reported to have calmed down somewhat during the struggle and eventually told the officer, “I’m done.”
He became irate again while still on the ground and began yelling, “record” and “camera.”
As the trooper attempted to secure a squirming Thorgesen’s feet, he “kicked back,” striking the officer on the chin.
A Mountain Home Police officer who arrived on the scene threatened to use his stun gun on Thorgesen and that became the beginning of the end of the confrontation. Thorgesen is reported to have told the lawmen, “I give up, I win, I don’t give up, I submitted respectfully.”
He continued to be uncooperative and was reported to have been ranting even after reaching the Baxter County jail.
A tow inventory of Thorgesen’s vehicle turned up two white strips of suspected LSD and an open bottle of beer.
Thorgesen’s record shows a number of criminal cases have been opened against him, beginning in 1995 when he was 17-years-old. The charges have been mainly drug-related.
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