Monday, July, 22, 2013
Father And Son Arrested For Assaulting Girlfriend
A father and son were arrested by local authorities late Friday for allegedly threatening and assaulting the son’s girlfriend.
Reports filed through the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department show that deputies were summoned to Clifton Road home around 10:40 p.m.
The victim, age 18, reported the assault had occurred while she was driving. She reported that she and boyfriend Christopher Kelsey Egly, 23, along with his father Christopher James Egly, 47, and his girlfriend had hoped to rent a cabin at NACO on Napier Road. They arrived, however, to find that the campground was closed.
The victim reported that, as she was the only sober party, she had begun to drive them home. During the drive, she said that both Eglys began to blame her for not being able to stay at the cabin.
The victim said that James Egly began to make comments about killing her and leaving her body on the side of the road in a ditch, and that Kelsey Egly joined in.
She said that when she stopped at a stop sign she grabbed her things, got out, and began to walk. She told deputies that Kelsey Egly followed, knocking her bag and cell phone from her hand.
She said that he stomped on the cell phone, breaking it, then threw it into a field. She said that James Egly then picked her up and put her back inside the truck.
Throughout the remainder of the drive, the victim said the men made repeated threats to, “Spill her blood.” She said when they got home she grabbed what she could and fled to a neighbor’s house to place a 911 call. The deputy noted that the victim had sustained cuts to her hands, arms, elbow, and leg.
Reports show that the remaining three denied that an altercation had taken place. James Egly allegedly lied to deputies, saying that he did not know the whereabouts of his son.
Deputies report finding him inside the house, pretending to be asleep. He told deputies that he had not left the house that evening. He said he did not know how he had sustained cuts to his legs.
When asked whether they could have been from the barb wire fence, deputies report he said they, “Could have been, but he never left the residence.”
Christopher James Egly was arrested on charges of domestic assault and resisting stop, frisk, halt and search. Christopher Kelsey Egly was arrested on charges of aggravated domestic assault and vandalism.
Both were transported to the Lawrence County Detention Center where the elder Egly was held on a $2,000 bond and the younger on a bond of $22,000.
Both Eglys are slated to appear in Lawrence County General Sessions Court on September 3, 2013.
