STROUD, Okla. — A Stroud man was arrested after allegedly threatening to strike three local children with a hammer while they were waiting for the school bus.
A probable cause affidavit reveals that officers received a call about a man potentially attempting to hit children with a hammer near 2nd Street and Harrison Avenue in Stroud.
Upon arriving at the scene, a neighbor informed police that 45-year-old Zachary Roberts had been shouting and swearing at three children waiting for the bus. The neighbor also reported that Roberts was holding an object, waving it around, and threatening to hit the kids with it “if they didn’t shut up.”
Court documents state that the neighbor yelled at Roberts to leave the children alone. In response, Roberts allegedly yelled and cursed at the neighbor before riding away on a bicycle down 2nd Street.
The children, who Roberts allegedly threatened, later identified the object he was holding as a hammer.
Authorities eventually located Roberts at a residence in Lincoln County, just south of Carney. When questioned, he reportedly denied making threats but admitted to telling the children to “b— shut the f— up.”
According to the affidavit, Roberts was asked to provide the hammer, and when he returned with it, he went on a rant about wanting to return to prison to “kill as many sex offenders as possible.”
Roberts was booked into the Lincoln County Jail on Monday, facing one count of assault and battery, two counts of threatening to commit an act of violence, and one count of placing bodily fluid on a government employee.
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