A revocation hearing was set for January 26 during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division for a man who was given 36 months probation in early July last year after pleading no contest to going into vehicles on the Hardee’s parking lot and taking items of personal property.
A revocation petition was filed November 12 in the case of 39-year-old Joseph Kight alleging that he had not abided by the terms and conditions of his probation by violating a domestic protective order and making harassing communications.
During the first try at a plea on his original charges, Kight was hesitant when Circuit Judge John Putman read the allegations against him and then asked if he was guilty of those actions.
The plea taking was postponed while Kight talked with his lawyer. Eventually, Kight said he would take a no contest plea. He told the court at the time that he did not remember doing the things that resulted in his arrest and mentioned alcohol and medications as two reasons his memory of the events was so faulty.
THE ARREST
As a Mountain Home police officer was responding to the incident at the fast-food restaurant, he was told that the suspect had run east, jumped a fence and headed toward Spring Street.
Kight was reported to have entered a vehicle along Spring Street. The owners said when they yelled at him, he abandoned the vehicle and ran toward Russell Street. The Spring Street victim followed the man, later identified as Kight, as he turned back toward Hardee’s and tried to get into another car.
When the MHPD officer arrived, Kight was headed west on Spring. As the officer turned into Spring Street, the suspect looked back and began to run behind residences.
He continued his effort to elude the law and refused to obey commands given to him by a second officer who had arrived on scene.
The second officer pulled even with the suspect and warned that if he did not get on the ground a stun gun would be used on him.
Kight had stopped running but was not following instructions the officers gave him. A taser was fired which caused the suspect to fall to the ground. Officers were able to put hand restraints on Kight.
Kight injured himself when he fell to the ground and was bleeding from his forehead. He refused medical treatment.
An officer went to the area where Kight had been seen throwing an object over a fence. The object turned out to be a “blue fiber grocery bag.” In the area where the suspect had jumped the fence a vape smoking device was located.
The smoking device had been taken out of one of the vehicles Kight entered.
Kight was initially charged with two counts of breaking or entering/vehicle, theft of property and fleeing on foot.
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