A gentleman who authorities say held a lady captive in Yard Town all through an assault that rendered her unconscious was arraigned in 1st District Court on Thursday.
John Joseph Sharkey, 43, has been billed with initially-diploma aggravated kidnapping, 2nd-degree aggravated assault, next-degree aggravated sexual extortion of an grownup, 3rd-degree aggravated assault, 3rd-degree escape from official custody and four supplemental misdemeanors.
For the duration of Sharkey’s visual appeal, prosecutors argued for him to be held without bail, citing the points of the case and “extreme risk” posed to the neighborhood if he were to be unveiled. Prosecutors relayed to the courtroom that Sharkey had not too long ago served 10 decades in a Colorado jail for assault with a deadly weapon.
Judge Spencer Walsh ordered Sharkey to be held with out bail until a listening to could be held to ascertain his foreseeable future detention status. He is set to seem right before Choose Angela Fonnesbeck on Feb. 9.
On Tuesday, in accordance to a possible lead to affidavit submitted with the court, regulation enforcement responded to a report of a bare lady who experienced entered the business of a Yard City lodge stating she had been locked out of a nearby dwelling in 12-diploma weather. The woman informed Abundant County Sheriff’s deputies she experienced been held captive by Sharkey for over two several hours and comprehensive how she experienced been assaulted in several ways.
The girl advised deputies that she was held at knifepoint, threatened with a pellet gun, assaulted with punches and strangled unconscious. In accordance to deputies, Sharkey attempted to sexually assault the target, physically assaulted her with a bottle of liquor, dumped seltzer h2o on her deal with in a manner “consistent with waterboarding,” alongside with other degrading functions.
Deputies wrote that Sharkey also deprived the victim of her mobile phone when she tried to simply call 911, took a movie of her unclothed and threatened to share the content.
The alleged sufferer explained to deputies she considered Sharkey had died by suicide just after she was sooner or later equipped to escape.
Wealthy County Sheriff Dale Stacey advised The Herald Journal the injuries sustained by the lady have been critical enough that she was transported by an ambulance to a hospital for procedure.
“We’re performing to get her as considerably assist as she wants,” Stacey reported, describing the sheriff’s business office has been doing work with CAPSA and victim’s advocates concerning the incident. “It was not a great situation at all.”
In accordance to the affidavit, authorities located the 6-foot 5-inch, 250 pound Sharkey hiding guiding a coat rack in a tiny basement hallway of the property. Deputies wrote they ended up “startled” by the look of the “very huge male,” and Sharkey promptly requested if they experienced a warrant.
Soon after being questioned to set his arms on his head, Sharkey once more “demanded” a warrant.
Then, defying orders from deputies, Sharkey ran as a result of a doorway into a garage. A stun gun was deployed but “did not realize neuromuscular override with the suspect.” Deputies then employed a 2nd stun gun, but a “heavy Carhartt coat” worn by Sharkey thwarted the device’s probes.
Sharkey was then taken to the ground and handcuffed, deputies wrote. Following it was believed Sharkey had calmed, he “jerked away” from deputies and fled back into the garage and attempted to shut the garage door. Sharkey was once more restrained but frequently resisted being positioned in the patrol motor vehicle.
“We had to use a push stun and sooner or later had to place a tether leash all-around his leg shackles and pull him into the cage where we ended up capable to secure him,” deputies wrote.
Sharkey was booked into the Cache County Jail for holding purposes on Tuesday right after becoming medically cleared at a neighborhood healthcare facility.
