A Linton man accused of threatening behavior toward officers, adults and children, while in possession of a firearm, was arrested twice last week and is currently being held without bond. This story is about the first incident.

Richard Earl House, 30, Linton, was arrested by Sgt. Logan Hobbs of the Linton Police Department on Monday night, October 22.

Sgt. Hobbs was dispatched to a home on E Street NE in Linton around 9 p.m. that Monday when LPD Dispatch got a call from a woman who said House was refusing to leave her property and was acting like he was about to drive his motorcycle through the front door of her home. The woman was previously married to House but they were divorced and House hadn’t lived at her residence for over a year.

When Hobbs arrived, he found House sitting on his motorcycle in the roadway in front of the home, armed with a semi-automatic handgun in a holster on his belt.

House allegedly said his cycle had gotten too hot and he just needed to sit somewhere. Hobbs told him he was blocking the road and to leave. The officer reported House then began shouting about his ex-wife, but House left on the motorcycle after he was told he could be arrested for disorderly conduct.

But, while the officer was talking to the ex-wife, House allegedly drove past the residence four times, screaming an obscenity each time. So, when Hobbs left the residence, he stayed in the area and observed House continuing to drive past the woman’s house and scream at her.

At one point, House stopped his motorcycle next to the officer’s patrol car. Hobbs again warned House about making unreasonable noise, but House allegedly yelled still more obscenities at the officer and the ex-wife before driving away.

In his report, Hobbs says he noticed House had failed to use his turn signal a couple of times so he pulled him over in a traffic stop. Once he was pulled over, House called his father and other friends and asked them to come to the location where he was stopped.

According to Hobbs, when these additional people arrived on the scene, House began walking toward the officer saying he was going to get disorderly and if the officer wanted to take him to jail, he would have to shoot him. House was ordered to stop, turn away, and show his hands, but he refused to comply.

When one of the additional people who had arrived on the scene talked to House, trying to get him to calm down, House put his hands up on his head. At that moment, Sgt. Hobbs disarmed House.

Sgt. Hobbs also told House he was under arrest and to put his hands behind his back. House did not comply, but at that point, LPD Det. Paul Clark had arrived on the scene to assist and the two officers were able to place House in handcuffs.

House was transported to the Greene County Jail where his bond was set at $1,500 surety with ten percent cash allowed and he was released after posting $150 cash.

Within a couple of days, House was back in jail after another incident occurred on Wednesday, October 24.

In this first case, House appeared in Greene Superior Court yesterday morning, on Tuesday, October 30, for his initial hearing.

He was charged with:

Intimidation – involving a threat to certain types of people, a Level 6 felony,
Criminal trespassing, a Class A misdemeanor,
Resisting law enforcement – knowingly or intentionally flees from law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor, and
Disorderly conduct involving unreasonable noise, a Class B misdemeanor.

During the hearing, a no-contact order was put in place, a public defender appointed to represent him, and on behalf of the State, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Keven McIntosh filed a motion to revoke bond which was approved by the judge.

House is now being held without bond in this case.

The second incident and arrest will be covered in another story.