Alleged threats, harassment of law personnel ends in arrest
A local man was arrested Saturday evening after allegedly making multiple harassing calls to dispatchers at the Garland County Sheriff’s Department and threatening to kill any deputies who showed up.
Jarrod Keane Cogburn, 42, of 255 Marla Marie Trail, was taken into custody at his residence shortly before 7 p.m. and charged with a felony count of first-degree terroristic threatening, punishable by up to six years in prison, and misdemeanor counts of harassment and communicating a false alarm, each punishable by up to one year in jail.
Cogburn was being held on a $ 4,500 bond and was set to appear Monday in Garland County District Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Garland County sheriff’s deputies responded to Cogburn’s residence after he reportedly called dispatchers 20 times and during the calls was “making threats to kill law enforcement if they showed up on his property.” It was also noted on many of the calls he was vulgar to dispatchers.
Cogburn reportedly walked out of the house and told the deputies who responded that he had a gun in his back pocket.
Cogburn was told to keep his hands in the air and not to reach for the gun. Cogburn allegedly continued to state he was going to reach for it and was again ordered not to and finally complied and Deputy Darrell Harmon was able to remove the gun, a loaded 9- mm pistol, from Cogburn’s back pocket.
The affidavit notes the gun had nine rounds in the magazine and one live round in the chamber.
Cogburn was taken into custody without further incident and transported to the Garland County Detention Center.