Fight leads to Fulton County man charged with assault, failure to comply with requirements

A Fulton County man has picked up two felony charges following a fight with a female. Forty-nine-year-old William Leon Jolly of Salem is facing charges of aggravated assault and failure to comply with reporting requirements because he is a registered sex offender.According to the probable cause affidavit from the Salem Police Department, the fight happened earlier this month at a house in Salem. The victim told the responding officer she and Jolly had been drinking and he started yelling and spitting in her face. She shoved him back and he then hit her, threw her to the ground and put his knee in her throat, making it hard for her to breathe. The victim said the homeowner witnessed the attack.

The officer did a check on Jolly and discovered he is a registered sex offender and has a warrant out of Baxter County.

Both the victim and the homeowner informed the officer Jolly had not been living at the address where he is registered for several weeks.

Two days after the attack, the Fulton County Sex Offender Registry Officer contacted the Salem Officer to inform him she had denied Jolly’s request to live at the address where the assault had taken place because it is too close to a church. Jolly is not allowed to live within 2,000 feet of a church. The homeowner told law enforcement they had been trying to get Jolly’s address changed to where he had been staying, but couldn’t due to that fact.

Jolly is being held in the Fulton County Jail on the two felony charges with bonds totaling $20,000. He also has a hold for Baxter County. The Baxter County warrant is for a misdemeanor failure to appear charge. His original arrest was on a charge of driving while suspended.

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