After a Bloomfield man, who was arrested last summer in a domestic case, was arrested again this week for violating a protective order, he told the court he wanted to accept a plea agreement.

Richard Harold Walton, Jr., 35, Bloomfield, was arrested by Deputy Terry Wade of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department on Monday, April 26, on a warrant for his arrest. The warrant was issued back in late January on a charge of invasion of privacy in violation of a protective order, a Class A misdemeanor, as a result of an investigation by Deputy Marshal Wayman JR Blazier of the Bloomfield Police Department.

Walton had been arrested last August by BPD Deputy Marshal Brittany Ingram after she responded to a domestic on Lincoln Drive in Bloomfield and found Walton standing outside the house yelling at a woman who was on the porch. Walton was subsequently charged with domestic battery committed in the presence of a child less than 16 years old, a Level 6 felony.

At the time of the incident, Walton allegedly admitted he kicked dents in a woman’s vehicle and shattered the windshield but denied battering the woman. The woman said after a fight started, Walton hit her on the side of the head with her phone in front of children, and threw her phone to the ground, shattering the screen.

That case was still pending on January 18 when Officer Blazier was on patrol around 5:20 p.m. and noticed the front glass of the storm door on a residence on Lincoln Drive was broken, the main door was standing open and two dogs were running around the area. The resident was the alleged victim in the earlier domestic.

Officer Blazier stopped and when he talked to the resident, she said Walton had been there and got mad about the condition of the house and she admitted that when he left, she kicked the front glass storm door and broke it. She said she did not call 911 for assistance because Walton took her phone when he left.

Walton had been served a protective order by court staff during a hearing in the earlier case and he was to have no contact with the woman. Officer Blazier attempted to contact Walton, without success.

After a criminal case was filed in late January, the warrant was issued and remained outstanding until Monday when he was booked into the Greene County Jail at 2:33 p.m.

Yesterday, Tuesday, April 27, when Walton appeared in Greene Superior Court for an initial hearing in the new case and a pretrial hearing in the earlier case, he was told his bond had been revoked in the earlier case and he would be held without bond, so he’s still in jail.

Walton’s earlier case was set for a jury trial but during yesterday’s hearing, Walton said he wanted to accept a plea agreement. A change of plea hearing has been set for next Monday morning, May 3.