A Marion County teen is facing five new charges after deputies had gone to his residence to arrest him on a misdemeanor warrant. Eighteen-year-old Dakoda James Haff of Yellville spat on one of the deputies multiple times and kicked the other deputy twice during the arrest.According to the probable cause affidavit from the Marion County Sheriffs Office, when deputies arrived, Haff approached one of them with his fist clenched. He was pushed back and told to calm down and then took off running.
A deputy chased him across the yard and took him to the ground. As the two deputies tried to put hand restraints on him, Haff would not cooperate and pulled his arms away. Once he was handcuffed and was being escorted to the patrol truck, Haff spat on one of the deputies multiple times. He then kicked the other deputy twice and attempted to kick the other deputy.
Haff refused to get into the truck, so they put him into the other vehicle with a cage. While in there, Haff kicked a window, causing it to shatter. After doing that, Haff told the deputies, “I fear no evil, I will kill you (expletive)s.”
For that incident, Haff is facing charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, second degree battery and two counts of first degree terroristic threatening, all felonies, along with a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief.
MISDEMEANOR WARRANT
The incident leading to deputies serving a misdemeanor warrant on Haff stemmed from an event that happened in late August at the Yellville Assembly of God Church.
According to that affidavit, Haff had been trespassed from the church because he kept getting up in the middle of the preachers sermon and interrupting him. When the pastor asked him to be quiet, Haff began arguing and shouting at him. Haff told members of the church in the parking lot later he was going to “get Brother Bob”, speaking of the preacher.
An hour after he had been trespassed, one of the church deacons had the children outside for Sunday School. Haff walked onto the church property and stared at the kids to the point the deacon took them back inside out of fear.
Shortly after that, another deacon was outside when Haff motioned him to come over to his yard. Haff told him “I am going to get Brother Bob.”
The pastor told the investigating deputy he was concerned about Haffs behavior because after he was leaving church that day, Haff was standing in his yard and he gave him a throat slit motion with his hand.
For those incidents, Haff is facing misdemeanor charges of second degree terroristic threatening and criminal trespass.
Haff is being held in the Marion County Jail with bonds totaling $11,000.
His first court date in Marion County Circuit Court is Thursday.
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