STARKE— A Graham man who pulled a knife on a deputy and threatened to kill a woman was sentenced to five years’ probation.
Chace Jeremy Beville, 40, pleaded to felony battery- repeat offender and resisting an officer without violence.
Beville was already serving a one-year jail sentence on separate offenses. His probation period will begin after he completes his jail term.
According to a July 4 arrest report, the victim told a deputy that she and the defendant were in a verbal argument when Beville threatened to kill her. The victim added that Beville also trapped her in a bathroom and “grabbed her left arm, and she could feel her body being jerked about.”
When Deputy Anthony Drew arrived at the couple’s River Bend Estates home, he found the defendant outside, next to a truck.
When Drew ordered the defendant to show the deputy his hands, Beville armed himself with a knife and fled into the woods.
A Department of Corrections tracking dog located the 40-year-old approximately 2.3 miles west of where the incident occurred.
The defendant’s previous arrest occurred on April 23 after Beville pushed the victim to the ground, grabbed her by the neck and hair, and dragged her across a porch. The victim told deputies that Beville attacked her so he could take possession of their child.
When deputies located the defendant in a nearby pickup, he was seated in the truck with the child in his lap.
