A Commerce man who followed up on his promise “to do something crazy” wound up lodged at the Jackson County Jail on charges of simple assault, simple assault under the Family Violence Act and criminal trespass.
According to the Commerce Police Department incident report, officers responded to a Hickory Street address where a 20-year-old white female said she’d received a call from Matthew Neal Tidwell, 22, 107 Hawks Ridge Road, Nicholson, in which Tidwell said he “was going to do something crazy.”
Sure enough, a few hours later Tidwell arrived at the Hickory Street address, banged on the complainant’s window, entered the house, and went to the bedroom where the woman and another man were, and forced his way in.
The officer noted a hole in the bedroom door.
Tidwell allegedly grabbed the woman, began asking her questions, told others in the house that he had a weapon, and ordered everyone else out of the house.
He fled into the woods when police arrived at about 2:30 a.m., but the report noted that Tidwell “was arrested at a later date and time,” but provided no details.
Police made another arrest at the scene. They charged Cody Cheyene Gibis, 17, of 201 Granite Road, Maysville, with aggravated stalking because he was at the scene in spite of a bond order prohibiting him from being in the proximity of a 15-year-old white female who was at the residence.