Repeat offender gets concurrent jail time

Published 3:04 pm Saturday, February 18, 2012

A 28-year-old Austin man convicted of stealing a rifle in December was sentenced to 30 days in jail Friday for disorderly conduct.

Anthony Barrett Graham was sentenced in relation to an incident that took place June 5, 2011. A fifth-degree assault charge was dismissed.

According to a court complaint, police were dispatched to a fight in progress at a house at the 600 block of 10th Avenue NW at about 10:15 p.m. June 5. The reportee told police he was at the home to pick up a 38-year-old woman when he saw Graham allegedly hit and push the woman while yelling and swearing at her. The 62-year-old reportee went to the home’s front door and yelled for the woman to call police. Graham then went through the house out the front door, where he pushed the reportee off the front steps.

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The reportee injured his right knee and elbow during the fall, as his knee and elbow was abraded and bleeding. He told police he saw Graham and the woman arguing on the home’s back porch when he called police and that Graham left the area a minute or two before officers arrived.

The woman was allegedly uncooperative, according to the report. She allegedly told police the reportee tripped over a small bike when he came to the home and tried to get the reportee to change his story. She also said it was unnecessary for police to photograph the reportee’s injuries.

Graham will serve the 30 days concurrent with his other sentences. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison stayed for 20 years’ probation in December in relation to the rifle theft incident. He was also convicted of fifth-degree drub possession and violating a no contact order in December.