An Ozark County man is facing multiple charges for separate incidents where he rammed into a restaurant with his a vehicle and overturned vehicles with a tractor. A total of 18 charges, 13 of them felonies, have been filed against Samuel Keith Ellison of Theodosia.
According to the probable cause affidavits from the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office, the first incident happened in late August when Ellison hit restaurant equipment and backed into the restaurant exterior of Cody’s Bar and Grill in Theodosia. Witnesses reported Ellison came into the parking lot at a high rate of speed.
After deputies finished their investigation and left the scene, they were notified by dispatch that Ellison was at the bar and said deputies had better get back before he “puts his car through the building.”
Deputies found Ellison in the parking lot of a business across the street and took him into custody.
Prior to investigating the incident at the bar, Ellison had contacted the sheriff’s office about a party at his house. He reported someone left illegal drugs and had taken the keys to a gun safe. Ellison told deputies he went to the person’s home to confront him about the situation.
When deputies went to the man’s home, he told them Ellison sent him threatening text messages and voicemails saying he would drive his truck through his house, put a hit out on him and he would kill him.
A few days after being released from jail for the first incident, Ellison is alleged to have used a tractor to overturn a total of 10 vehicles on adjoining properties in Ozark County. The vehicles all had similar straight line horizontal dents and tractor tire marks were found in the grass and dirt.
A cell phone was found at the scene that belongs to Ellison.
For the first incident, Ellison is facing felony charges of armed criminal action, first degree property damage, leaving the scene of an accident and first degree harassment along with a misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner involving an accident.
For the second incident, Ellison is facing three felony counts of armed criminal action, three felony counts of first degree property damage, three felony counts of first degree harassment, three misdemeanor counts of tampering with a motor vehicle and one misdemeanor count of second degree property damage.
He is being held in the Ozark County Jail without bond.
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