Man pleads guilty to violating order for protection

Published 1:21 pm Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A man found sleeping in the bed of a woman who had an order for protection against him will be sentenced in December.

Kenneth Donald Thompson, 52, of Austin pleaded guilty on Monday in Mower County District Court to felony domestic assault-violate order for protection as part of a plea agreement.

According court records, officers responded to a report of the violation at 1:05 a.m. on July 2 in the 3000 block of Fourth Avenue Southwest.

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A woman told police she had taken a relative out of state to protect her from Thompson. When she got home that night, she found Thompson and another woman sleeping in her bed. She had an order for protection against Thompson and told the two to leave. She said he told her someone was on their way to kill her relative before he and the woman left in a blue pick-up truck.

Police found the truck a short time later in the 700 block of 36th Drive Southwest. Thompson and the woman were lying in the back seat. When an officer told Thompson why they made contact with him, he became agitated and denied going to the victim’s house or that she had an order of protection against him.

The report said Thompson became verbally aggressive and kicked the door of the truck. He was advised he was under arrest, after which he pulled a hammer from under one of the seats. He then began hitting the inner door of the truck with the hammer.

More officers arrived and told Thompson to get out of the truck because he was under arrest. They advised the woman to get out as well to avoid being injured. Neither made any attempt to exit the truck, prompting an officer to try breaking the passenger side rear window.

The woman jumped out through the driver side rear window. Thompson went to the passenger side rear window, was Tasered and arrested.

Court records indicate he was served with the order of protection and failed to appear at the hearing during which the order was upheld and ordered for two years.

Thompson will be sentenced Dec. 14.