ROCKINGHAM — A man who has been on probation for less than two months is now accused of making threats.
Fred Jasper McDonald III is accused of following and approaching the reported victim “on at least two different occasions" on Oct. 21.
McDonald allegedly told the reported victim “that he was going to kill him and was going to get him and to watch his back” while getting a “big stick” out of the trunk of his car.
The warrant was taken out by the reported victim on Tuesday, Oct. 21, charging McDonald with one misdemeanor count each of communicating threats and stalking.
McDonald was arrested Oct. 22 and booked into the Richmond County Jail just before 1 a.m. He is being held without bond.
Records with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction show McDonald was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon — for hitting a woman in the head with a glass lamp in June — on Sept. 8 and given a 24-month suspended sentence.
McDonald was first convicted on three counts of felony breaking and entering in 1982 and served two months in prison for one of the counts.
Other prior convictions include the following misdemeanor charges:
1988 - larceny, possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance, other misdemeanant
2002 - injury to real property, damage to property, possession of drug paraphernalia
2008 - driving while impaired, driving while license revoked, resisting a public officer
2015 - driving while impaired, driving while license revoked (two counts)
2020 - assault on a female
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
