Kenneth Lee Elliott
Robbinsville – A Robbinsville man was being held in lieu of $85,000 bail on a list of charges, including felony probation violation and kidnapping, and misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon, damage to personal property, and communicating threats.
Kenneth Lee Elliott, 52, was arrested July 20 by Graham County sheriff’s deputies.
On July 19, Graham County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to contact Elliott’s wife, Shannon Elliott, about an assault that she was a victim of a few days earlier. Mrs. Elliott told deputies that her husband threatened her with a knife.
She told deputies that four days earlier when she left her daughter’s residence, Mr. Elliott was waiting for her in his mother’s car at a nearby intersection. He bumped into her car with his and told her to go straight to his mother’s house without stopping or he would cut her throat, the Graham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Mr. Elliot had held a knife to her throat while threatening to kill her a few days earlier, so Mrs. Elliott complied with the latest demand. Once they arrived at Mr. Elliott’s mother’s house, he took a knife and punctured one of his wife’s tires – although he then fixed the tire the next day.
Mr. Elliott also allegedly held a knife to Mrs. Elliott’s side during a trip to town to get food.
Mr. Elliott’s mother, who was not named in the news release, offered to take Mrs. Elliott to Mill Creek when Mr. Elliott stabbed another tire on the car. Both women then left and went to town, at which time a wrecker was summoned to pick up her car.
According to Mr. Elliott’s mother, “things went ballistic” at that time, and Lee threatened to cut his wife’s throat, and then picked up a hammer. Out of fear, Mrs. Elliott got in her daughter’s vehicle while the wrecker loaded her car.
Arrest warrants were applied for and were granted for Mr. Elliott’s arrest. He was located the following day and arrested.