Photos: (from left) Bradley Uren and Devontae Sipps
A Gassville man already facing rape charges has now allegedly committed his second set of criminal offenses stemming from fights and disturbances in the Baxter County jail.
Thirty-six-year-old Bradley Uren appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a not guilty plea to his latest charges.
Bradley Uren and his estranged wife, 37-year-old Jennifer Uren, were arrested March 6 last year. Bradley Uren is charged with three counts of rape and Jennifer Uren with two counts of permitting child abuse.
Photo: Jennifer Uren
Both Bradley and Jennifer Uren have entered not guilty pleas to the initial charges against them.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the newest jail disturbance involving Bradley Uren took place on Feb. 7.
Bradley Uren and another inmate are accused of taking turns attacking a fellow prisoner.
The victim was transported to Baxter Regional Medical Center for treatment and then moved to a hospital in Springfield.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the state is seeking to have the cost of medical treatment assessed to Uren and the other person involved in the fight earlier this month — 21-year-old Devontae Sipps. During Thursday’s court session, Sipps also entered a not guilty plea to his charges stemming from the jail fight.
The first jail fight in which Uren was involved took place Sept. 28. He was charged with battery of jail staff and impairing the operations of a vital public facility.
According to the probable cause affidavit in the first jail disturbance case, Bradley Uren was reported to have begun kicking the door of his cell, threw the morning meal cart and contents in the direction of a member of the jail staff and began screaming at the jailer — cursing and using a number of racial slurs.
When jailers responded and made entry to the area where Bradley Uren was housed, he was told he was to be locked down for 24 hours due to his unruly behavior. He is alleged to have said he was “not going anywhere.”
Deputies gave him one last chance to gather his mat and other items that had been issued to him and go to lockdown.
As a member of the jail staff began to “assist” Uren off his bed, the inmate was said to have actively resisted, including elbowing one of the deputies.
He was finally taken to the ground, where he was placed in an arm lock in order to get him under control and to prevent him from carrying out further attacks on jailers. He was then placed in an isolation cell.
Bradley Uren is a registered sex offender. His records show he is required to register during his lifetime after being convicted of sexual battery in August 2005.
According to the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office’s website, his sex offender status stemmed from an incident in another state involving a then-18-year-old Bradley Uren and a 14-year-old female.
Bradley Uren was convicted of encouraging the minor female to come to his house where he forced her to remove her clothing at knifepoint.
The probable cause affidavit containing details of his Baxter County rape has been sealed by prosecutors.
The records that are available show Bradley Uren and his estranged wife filed petitions in February last year seeking orders of protection, with each listing the other as respondent in the action.
Court records show Jennifer Uren filed a petition against her husband Feb. 3, 2020 followed by Bradley Uren’s petition against his wife about a week later.
In his petition, Bradley Uren accuses his estranged wife of wanting to sell one of their children to relatives of hers for $10,000. He alleges his wife and unnamed individual “have a conspiracy” to get him “out of the picture.”
He charges she was violent with him, consorted with convicted criminals and made threats to “find someone to take care” of her husband.
Bradley Uren’s petition was dismissed.
In her petition, Jennifer Uren alleges her husband had hit her several times, tried to break her arm and threatened her life and the lives of the couple’s children.
She accused Bradley Uren of having “peek holes” in the home enabling him to watch “every move” she and their children made.
Jennifer Uren says the Arkansas Department of Human Services has custody of the couple’s children allegedly because her husband “molested” some of them. She filed for divorce in early March last year. The action was dismissed about six months later and then refiled.
Bradley Uren remains in the Baxter County jail with bond set at $500,000. Jennifer Uren is free on a $5,000 bond.
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