A man who was served with a protective order in December was arrested last Sunday for allegedly showing up at the door of the protected person and sending her messages.

Michael Allen Faulk, 50, was arrested by Sgt. Logan Hobbs of the Linton Police Department on Sunday, March 7. Faulk was listed on the jail log with a home address in Shelburn but court records show him with a home address in Linton.

Last Sunday afternoon, around 2:45 p.m., a woman went to the Linton Police Department and reported Faulk had been at her residence in Linton in violation of a protective order. She said Faulk had threatened to break the door down and left when she said she was going to call the police. Faulk was described as wearing a black leather jacket with a bandana on his head, riding a motorcycle.

Sgt. Hobbs checked and found the protective order was valid and was served to Faulk in early December. LPD Officer Orry Phipps located a motorcycle parked in a driveway a couple blocks from the woman’s house. Witnesses in the area confirmed they saw a man that matched the description within previous minutes.

Sgt. Hobbs and Officer Phipps then knocked on the door of the residence where the motorcycle was parked but there was no answer. They found Faulk sitting behind the residence.

When Faulk was asked what he was doing, he said he was sitting down to take a break. Then he spontaneously said he didn’t do anything wrong and the woman was calling police for no reason. He said he’d been to her house a few days earlier without incident.

Faulk was informed that he had violated the protective order and that he was under arrest. Hewas transported and booked into the Greene County Jail at 4:12 p.m. He was being held without bond.

After this incident, the woman provided Sgt. Hobbs with copies of text messages that had been sent to her from Faulk in previous days.

Faulk is facing preliminary charges of:

• Invasion of privacy in violation of a protective order, a Class A misdemeanor, and

• Invasion of privacy – with a prior unrelated conviction, a Level 6 felony.