According to a complaint filed with the associate district court of Bates County, MO, Mark Eugene Tenholder of Butler, MO has been charged with two counts of Class D Felony 2nd degree Assault. According to a Probable Cause Statement, at around 6:41 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4th, one of Tenholders alleged victims captured a video of him repeatedly driving in front of her house in a gray Ford F250. The victim then went to dinner in Adrian, MO and as she was leaving the establishment she spotted Tenholder outside waiting for her. A second victim saw Tenholder as well and offered to drive the first victim to pick up her car. The second victim reported in the probable cause statement that Tenholder then allegedly started to follow someone connected to the two victims out of town so they decided to pick up the car at a later time. As the victims were driving down State Route 18 the first victim received a call from someone warning her Tenholder was waiting for them to drive by at a sports complex, so she started to record a video that eventually showed Tenholder's vehicle start to overtake the victims before allegedly going into the lane they were driving in and running them off the road.
According to
the probable cause statement, while being interviewed by a Bates County deputy
the first victim gave the deputy an address where Tenholder might be located.
The Deputy then went to that address and spotted the Ford F250 shown in both
videos in the driveway before making contact with Tenholder at the door.
Tenholder told the deputy he overtook a vehicle on State Route 18 but did not
run anyone off the road. Tenholder then said he would make a statement at the
jail but once Tenholder and the deputy arrived there he no longer wanted to.
According to
the probable cause statement, Tenholder currently has an Order of Protection
against him from the first victim and has already violated it multiple times.
Tenholder
was put in jail on a 24-hour hold Tuesday night, A warrant for Tenholder's
arrest was made Wednesday, June 5th with bond set at $20,000.
