Flippin Man Arrested for Aggravated Assault

A Flippin man is in the Baxter County Detention Center on three counts of aggravated assault after being arrested at a family residence.

Thirty-two-year-old Chase Pollard is also facing charges of first-degree terroristic threatening and obstructing governmental operations.

According to the incident report from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, a pair of deputies responded on Jan. 6 to a welfare check on Maple Leaf Trail in northern Baxter County. A man called and asked authorities to check on his wife due to a recent knee surgery. He advised Pollard was at the residence, and he had mental issues.

One deputy arrived and reported Pollard was talking to him through the door but would not allow entry to the residence. The other deputy spotted another male associated with Pollard and the victim in the road with a flat tire, and he offered to go to the residence in an attempt to make contact with them.

Deputies later made contact with the victim by talking to her through a bedroom window in the back. She agreed to meet them at the front door, and when asked if Pollard was inside, she reportedly stated he was in Texas. The female later started crying and said Pollard was the in the back bedroom with a knife. She alleges Pollard threatened to kill her and the deputies if she let them in and told her to tell them he was in Texas.

Deputies entered the residence, went to the room Pollard was in, opened the closet door and instructed him to come out with his hands up. He reportedly did not obey all of the commands and threatened bodily harm if the deputies touched him or arrested him. The deputies did eventually grab Pollard’s arms and placed him under arrest.

Pollard remains incarcerated with his bond set at $15,000.