A Lakeview man with three open criminal cases appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last week.
Two of 33-year-old Kenneth Morosky’s cases were opened in 2019 and one in 2020. He pled guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced to four years probation.
His latest charges came in May 2020 and stem from an alleged rampage triggered when he couldn’t find his tranquilizers.
Those charges include third degree assault and attempting to bring contraband into the Baxter County Detention Center.
On May 13 2020, Baxter County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported violent domestic disturbance at a residence along Big Pond Place off Highway 5 South, 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 threatening to use the pistol.
The woman talked Morosky into coming to the bathroom door to speak to the deputies. Morosky admitted 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 that “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 even more serious. In the changing room, a jailer found a syringe with an uncapped needle in Morosky’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 had two other active cases.
· Drug-related charges were filed against him in early-July 2019 after officers went to a residence along Chaparral Drive. Morosky had locked himself in the attached garage of the residence. The Mountain Home drug dog was put into the garage through a window, followed by an officer. Morosky was found hiding in a closet and arrested.
· He was accused of theft of property in late June 2019. A woman reported her debit card and some cash had been stolen out of her parked vehicle. The card was used several times, including at the Mountain Home Walmart. Officers viewed video surveillance footage at Walmart and found the person who used the card. The picture was put on the Sheriff’s Office website asking for help in identifying the man. Six callers said the suspect was Morosky.
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