After an altercation at a residence in the Lyons area last Thursday took to the road, deputies located two trucks traveling north on State Road 57 and took one of the drivers into custody.

David Otto Shands, 44, of Odon, was arrested by Deputy Jordan Allor of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department last Thursday night, March 12.

GCSD Deputy Zachary Goad, the investigating officer, was dispatched along with Deputy Allor before 8 p.m. that Thursday after a caller reported an altercation had occurred at a residence on West County Line Road in the Lyons area. The caller said Shands had driven his truck into the caller’s truck. The caller then left to get away from Shands and he told a dispatcher that Shands was following him and had a “billy club” with him.

While deputies were enroute, the caller continued to update dispatch on the location of the two trucks and when Deputy Allor located the trucks northbound on State Road 57, he initiated a traffic stop, asked Shands to exit his truck, and placed him in handcuffs.

When asked what was going on, Shands allegedly said nothing then said the man in the other truck, who had called in, had Shands’ wife’s paper license plate on his truck. That turned out to not be true – Deputy Goad checked and confirmed the plate on the man’s truck belonged on his truck.

There was a disagreement between Shands and the other man and Shands is accused of ramming his truck into the other man’s truck while two individuals were inside or standing nearby, then getting out and threatening the other man with a wooden club which was found inside his truck. After this incident occurred, the other man left and Shands followed him.

Shands was booked into the Greene County Jail around 9:30 p.m. His bond was set at $24,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. He posted $2,400 and was released the next day.

Shands is currently scheduled to appear in Greene Circuit Court early on April 9 when he will be formally charged with two counts of battery by means of a deadly weapon, both Level 5 felonies, and criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, a Level 6 felony.