A new criminal case was filed today against a Switz City man who’s already facing two pending cases.

Mark Dickinson, 40, Switz City, is facing yet another criminal case in addition to two other criminal cases that are pending against him, both involving felony counts.

In one of those pending cases, Dickinson was charged with:

Criminal confinement, with moderate bodily injury, a Level 4 felony,
Domestic battery, with a prior conviction, a Level 6 felony,
Intimidation – threat to commit a forcible felony, a Level 6 felony,
Strangulation, a Level 6 felony, and
Criminal recklessness, a Class B misdemeanor.

When Dickinson appeared in court in that earlier case, the judge issued a protective order to Dickinson ordering him to have no contact with the alleged victim in the case.

In the new case, Dickinson is accused of violating the protective order by contacting the protected person by telephone numerous times.

Deputy James Carpenter of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department has been investigating.

Dickinson has been incarcerated in the Greene County Jail since his last arrest and earlier this month, Deputy Carpenter was advised by a detective that Dickinson had been calling the protected person.

When Deputy Carpenter checked the call sheets that log calls from telephones at the jail, he reported Dickinson called the protected person from an inmate telephone at 1:48 p.m. and 10:25 p.m. on January 2; at 10:37 p.m. on January 4; at 2:10 p.m., 2:13 p.m., 7:16 p.m., 7:34 p.m., 8:05 p.m., 9:40 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on January 5.

Some of the conversations that take place on inmate telephones are recorded and Deputy Carpenter reported that one or more conversations between Dickinson and the protected person included Dickinson trying to convince the protected person to contact the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office to change her story and ask for the case against him to be dismissed.

After information from Deputy Carpenter’s investigation was submitted to the prosecutor’s office, the new case was filed.

Dickinson is facing a new charge of invasion of privacy in violation of a protective order, a Class A misdemeanor.