Coal County Sheriff’s Report
Two charged with assault and battery
Two people have been charged with assault and battery on a 26-year-old Centrahoma woman.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Ryan Shane Barton, 47, McAlester, and Jennifer Lynn Butler, 35, Sallisaw.
Captain Ethan Fomby states in his probable cause affidavit that a 26-year-old female reported on January 15 that she went to her residence in Centrahoma to drop off her niece and waited in her car for her sister, Jennifer Butler, and Ryan Barton to leave.
According to the alleged victim, Barton and Butler came outside and Butler began knocking on her car window. When she rolled down the window, Butler began yelling at her and Barton yelled “Beat her up.”
She and her sister began to get into a physical altercation outside the vehicle, she said. Barton broke up the fight, pushed her into the car and placed his hands around her throat. Butler hit her in her left eye. She said when people started coming out of the residence, Barton and Butler left.
Barton has been charged with felony domestic assault and battery by strangulation. Butler was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.
Coalgate man faces domestic assault charge
Christopher West-Lee McCann, 44, Coalgate, was charged January 22 with felony domestic assault and battery by strangulation. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Deputy Christopher Horstman said he was dispatched to a residence on N. Roy Street on January 18 at approximately 1:00 a.m. concerning an assault.
Horstman spoke with the alleged female victim, telling her that the sheriff’s office received an anonymous call concerning her wellbeing and asked her what had occurred.
The woman told Horstman that her former boyfriend, Christopher McCann, came to her house in the middle of the night and began beating on her door. She said she did not know who was at the door so she got a firearm and slowly opened the door. McCann forced his way into the house, headbutted her, and placed his hands around her neck, she said. He tried to get the firearm but her son entered the living room and took it. When McCann saw she wasn’t alone, he fled.
Coalgate woman arrested with illegal drugs
Kimberly Hunt, 38, Coalgate, was arrested the night of January 16 after the sheriff’s office received a call about an intoxicated female walking down Nixon Road toward SH 31.
Deputy Dustin Newton said when he made contact with Hunt and asked her name and date of birth, she gave him false information.
Deputy Kolton Parker arrived on scene, and when he asked Hunt if she had anything illegal in her bags or on her person, she told him no, that he could check. The deputies searched Hunt’s belongings and found a glass pipe containing a crystal-like substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine.
Hunt was placed under arrest and transported to the Coal County jail. She has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor possession of controlled dangerous substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was released on $3,000 bond and is scheduled for an April 23 court appearance.