Jeffery Paul Roberson
HANCOCK COUNTY — A McCordsville man already in trouble with law enforcement for domestic battery and strangulation charges made matters worse when he was arrested and charged with over 20 invasion of privacy crimes as well as a felony stalking charge from incidents earlier this month and in late March.
Jeffery Paul Roberson, 34, 6200 block of North Woodbury Drive, is facing a Level 5 felony count of stalking and 25 Class A misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy from incidents over the past 30 days.
Roberson was already facing a Level 5 felony count of criminal confinement with bodily injury, a Level 6 felony count of domestic battery on a person less than 14 years, a Level 6 felony count of strangulation, a Level 6 felony count of domestic battery committed in the presence of a child and Class A misdemeanor counts of resisting law enforcement and interference with the reporting of a crime on March 17.
Court records note that the victims in the second set of charges are the same as the adult and child victims from the first case.
Both cases are being handled in Hancock County Circuit Court with the latest charges addressed Monday afternoon. Roberson had an initial appearance on the new charges where Judge Scott Sirk set a $25,000 cash bond subject to a no contact order. Roberson is due back in court in mid-June for a pre-trial conference in the second case.
However, court records show Roberson is due back in court April 24 on the first case for a bail revocation/alteration hearing.
According to officials from the McCordsville Police Department, an officer received a call April 12 from a woman and a child who officials knew to have a protective order against Roberson. The officer also noted Roberson had a warrant out for his arrest for violating probation.
The woman told officials that Roberson had been on her property and she was scared he was going to try to make entry into her residence, the report stated. The woman said Roberson was staying at a home next door. When officials got there, they saw Roberson was inside the home next to the woman’s house, approximately 21 feet from where the woman and child were living.
According to the affidavit, Roberson was arrested without incident. However, he told officers that they should check on the woman because he thought she had been drinking alcohol. Officials said it was Roberson who had been consuming alcohol and tested positive for excessive alcohol use.
Officers contacted the woman and noted it was clear she had not been consuming alcohol, the report stated. She however, told officials that Roberson had tried to contact her multiple times.
Officials noted in the report that the woman said that Roberson showed up at her home with a bottle of wine and and had gotten into her SUV in the driveway and placed a bottle of wine in the vehicle. The woman told police that Roberson was texting her off someone else’s phone and advised she has received approximately 26 missed calls from “random numbers” she believed were calls coming from Roberson, including five missed calls from a “no caller ID” phone.
The woman told officials she was “freaked out” by Roberson and that he was “creepy,” the affidavit said.
Officials in the affidavit stated that they found were able to listen to jail conversations from when Roberson was arrested the first time and found numerous conversations between Roberson and the woman as well as multiple “chirp” messages between the two despite a no contact order.
On April 12, officials stated the woman called dispatch and told officials that Roberson had been calling her and she thought he was in an Uber just down the road and would not stop calling her, the report stated. Roberson, officials said, even called when an officer was there to check on the woman, and the officer heard Roberson ask multiple times to come to her home, but the woman said “no.”
Officials say calls from Roberson were coming from a “no caller ID” number, but Roberson left some 19 voice messages, the affidavit said. The woman also told officials Roberson had tried to come into her home for eight straight days.
