A Mountain Home man who has been arrested twice for threatening physical harm to his parents, including brandishing a meat cleaver at this mother, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last Monday.
A request was made by defense attorney Matt Stone to lower the bond of 46-year-old James Paul Clinkingbeard but the state strongly objected to any change to the bond.
The $7,500 bond was left unchanged.
Clinkingbeard was jailed in late February this year and in early March last year for physically threatening his parents.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the latest arrest came after Mountain Home police officers were called to the parents’ home where Clinkingbeard was reported to be making threats to kill his mother.
The mother said her son had been brandishing a meat cleaver. She told police Clinkingbeard had raised the cleaver and told her he intended to kill her.
At the time of the latest incident, an order of protection was in place to keep Clinkingbeard away from his parents and their residence along Foster Street.
Clinkingbeard was also arrested on March 6 last year when Mountain Home police officers responded to his parents’ residence.
A 911 caller reported a man, possibly under the influence of illegal drugs, was causing a disturbance.
When the officers arrived, they reported that Clinkingbeard ran behind a shed on the property. He came out a short time later and went to the front of the residence.
One officer walked behind the shed and found a small plastic bag containing suspected methamphetamine in a garbage can.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the officers spoke to Clinkingbeard’s mother and father on this occasion. They said their son had threatened them and had been throwing chairs off the front porch.
Both victims said they were afraid of Clinkingbeard and feared he might injure them by throwing chairs at them as well as throwing the furniture off the porch. They told the officers they were frightened and did not “want to end up dead.”
When officers talked to Clinkingbeard, he admitted he had put the plastic bag in the trash can. Another plastic bag containing suspected methamphetamine and a smoking pipe used to ingest the drug was found in Clinkingbeard’s shirt pocket.
The charges filed against Clinkingbeard in both incidents include aggravated assault on a family or household member, violation of a protective order, third-degree assault, possession of methamphetamine and paraphernalia to ingest the drug.
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