Parole for a Jordan area man sentenced to prison for assaulting his uncle, two neighbors and staff at the Baxter County Detention Center has been denied.
Forty-six-year-old Jeremy Woods was first arrested on assault charges stemming from the attack on his uncle and two neighbors.
In 2021, Baxter County sheriff’s deputies responded to the report of a shooting at Woods Feed and Farm Supply along State Highway 177 South.
When they arrived, they found Woods lying on his back in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder area.
Woods’ uncle and owner of the business said his nephew had come to the establishment and said, “Now, you have a reason to have me arrested.” A no contact order was in force in which Woods was ordered to stay away from his uncle and the uncle’s business which he had violated by coming into the store.
Woods was reported to have told his uncle that he had time to beat him up before law enforcement could arrive.
He is reported to have come behind the counter at one point where he fought with his relative.
The fight continued, moving out the door and into the parking lot where the uncle shot Woods in the right shoulder.
According to the probable cause affidavit, it was not the first time Woods had attacked his uncle. There are no indications in court records as to the cause, nature or duration of the bad blood between Woods and his relative.
ASSAULT ON NEIGHBORS
In another case, Woods was charged with chasing one neighbor around the yard while swinging a baseball bat and knocking another neighbor unconscious with the bat when she complained about his attack on the first neighbor.
The second victim was upset that her grandchildren were being subjected to the profanity and other commotion going on outside Woods’ residence.
When the grandmother went to the property line and confronted Woods about his actions and the language he was using, he spat tobacco juice on the woman.
She then said she intended to report the incident to law enforcement and Woods spit on her again. When the woman turned away to make a call to summon help, Woods is reported to have stuck her on the left side of the face with the bat knocking the woman unconscious.
The woman’s son stepped in and detained Woods until other family members arrived on scene.
The grandmother was diagnosed with a concussion and a contusion to her left cheek. She had an indentation on the left side of her face that doctors reported would be permanent.
FIGHT IN JAIL
After Woods was sentenced to prison on the assault cases, he sat in the county jail waiting for a bed to open in the state prison system where he became involved in a fight with jail staff.
He picked up more charges stemming from violent attacks while he was an inmate.
He was reported to have begun “acting out” and threatening to hit people, including staff and other inmates, with a folding metal chair.
When told a stun gun would be used on him, he put the chair down but as he began to exit the multipurpose room at the jail, he attempted to rip the badge off a jailer’s shirt.
He was brought under control once more and when staff attempted to put him in a restraint chair, he lashed out again – trying to strike a jailer and kicking him in the leg.
Woods was then reported to have grabbed the microphone from a staff member’s portable radio and hit the officer in the head with it.
After being in the restraint chair for a time, he was returned to a cell.
PRISON TROUBLES
While an inmate in the state prison system, Woods’ record shows a variety of violent episodes.
There are multiple counts of aggravated battery, simple battery, threats to inflict injury, resisting apprehension and provoking or agitating a fight.
Wood’s was sentenced to seven years in prison on the assault cases involving his uncle and neighbors and three years for the violent jail incident.
The three years sentence runs concurrent with the longer one handed down in the initial case.
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