A man waiting to go to prison on charges of assaulting his uncle and two neighbors is now accused of a violent attack on staff at the Baxter County Detention Center.
Forty-four-year-old Jeremy Allen Woods appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday and pled not guilty to charges of aggravated assault, 2nd degree battery and impairing the operations of a vital public facility.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Woods was in the multi-purpose room at the jail in the early afternoon of July 7 when “he began to act out by threatening to hit people, including staff and other inmates, with a folding metal chair.”
A jailer responded to the disturbance and told Woods to put the chair down or a stun gun would be used on him.
Woods did as ordered, but as he began to exit the multi-purpose room he attempted to rip the badge off of a deputy’s shirt. He was brought under control once more and placed in hand restraints, taken to the booking area and placed on a bench.
Jail staff removed the hand restraints as they attempted to place Woods in a restraint chair. He lashed out again – trying to strike a deputy and kicking him in the leg.
Woods is then reported to have grabbed the microphone from a deputy’s portable radio and began hitting the officer in the head with it.
He was eventually put in the restraint chair until it was determined he could be returned to a cell.
ATTACKED A RELATIVE
On May 2, Woods pled guilty to charges in two cases in which he is alleged to have assaulted his uncle and two neighbors.
Woods had been shot by his uncle after he attacked the relative. In the second case, he had been charged with waiving a baseball bat at a neighbor and knocking another neighbor unconscious with the bat.
In his two earlier cases Woods pled guilty to multiple charges of battery, disorderly conduct and violating a no contact order.
He was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $5,000 in victim restitution to cover medical expenses.
Woods told the court at one point that his “alcohol problem” was the cause of his violent behavior.
In mid-November 2021, Baxter County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a shooting at Woods Feed and Farm Supply along Highway 177 South.
They found Woods lying on his back in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder area.
The uncle and owner of the business said his nephew had come into the establishment and said, “Now, you have a reason to have me arrested.”
A no contact order was in force at the time in which Woods was ordered to stay away from his uncle and the uncle’s business.
After Woods entered the store, he is reported to have sat down on the floor for a time. When he got up, he approached his uncle and is alleged to have said that he had time to beat his relative up before police arrived.
He came behind the counter and attacked his uncle.
A witness, who worked at the store, said he was “in the back working and the store owner called him on a radio and told him to come inside.”
The witness said he saw Jeremy Woods and the uncle fighting behind the gun counter. He said at one point Woods was reaching for a gun inside the counter.
The fight continued out the door and into the parking lot where the uncle shot Woods in the right shoulder.
According to the probable cause affidavit, there have been previous reports of Woods attacking his uncle.
There are no indications in court records as to the cause, nature or duration of the disagreement between uncle and nephew.
ASSAULT ON NEIGHBORS
In another case, Woods was reported to have chased one neighbor around the yard while swinging a baseball bat, and knocking another neighbor unconscious with the bat when she complained about his actions.
The incident happened in mid-April 2021. Investigators who worked the case were told that Woods was having a heated argument with one neighbor, shouting profanities and swinging a bat as he chased the neighbor around the yard.
Another neighbor was upset that her grandchildren were being subjected to the profanity and other commotion going on outside Wood’s residence.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the grandmother went to the property line and confronted Woods about the profanity.
Woods said he cared nothing about the woman’s grandchildren and spat tobacco juice on her.
She was said to have told him she intended to report the situation to law enforcement. Wood’s reaction was to spit tobacco juice on the woman again.
When she turned away to make the call for help, Woods is alleged to have struck her on the left side of the face with the bat, knocking the woman unconscious.
He was allegedly trying to hit her again when the victim’s son stepped in and took the brunt of the impact of the blow from the bat with his body.
The son continued to fight with Woods and detained him until other family member came to the scene. The victim was taken to the Izard County Medical Center for treatment.
She was diagnosed with a concussion and a contusion on her left cheek. She had an indentation on the left side of her face that doctors reported would be permanent.
The son suffered minor injuries from being hit with the bat and in his fight with Woods.
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