Sentencing will be April 13 for a rural Clements man who has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of criminal threat.
The plea by David Foley came Feb. 9 in Chase County District Court in Cottonwood Falls. Foley, 62, originally was charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
According to documents filed earlier with the court, Chase County Sheriff Richard Dorneker went to the Foley home on Sept. 29, after a caller to sheriff’s dispatch office requested that an officer check on Foley’s welfare.
An affidavit and supporting statement filed in the case stated that Foley had not been heard from since Sept. 27, when his girlfriend left the home after a domestic problem.
Dorneker could not make contact with Foley when he arrived at the home and, after checking all of the outbuildings, Dorneker went back to knock on the front door again, and opened a screen door that led to the front porch.
Foley opened the front door, pointed a silver revolver, threatened to kill Dorneker and ordered him off the property, the statement said.
A special response team from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation assisted the sheriff’s department in handling the situation and taking Foley into custody. Officers from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department and the Kansas Highway Patrol also assisted in the operation.