City man faces charges twice in a week
A Jamestown man has been charged for the second time in a week with allegedly threatening another person with a weapon.
Robert Overton Jr., 56, of Jamestown, was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal contempt and second-degree menacing after officers responded to a home on Jamestown’s east side at 3:10 a.m. Sunday for a report of a person with a weapon. Overton allegedly brandished a weapon in direction of a caller who had an active full stay away order of protection against Overton, according to a police report. Overton was taken to the city jail until he could be arraigned.
Overton was charged last week with second-degree menacing and second-degree harassment after officers responded to a reported neighbor dispute on the north side. Overton allegedly threatened and menaced a person with what appeared to be a rifle.
Overton will be in court later to answer the charges.
Overton was charged in April 2018 with felony aggravated cruelty to animals less than a week after a brown and white dog was found hanging by a leash and nylon rope in a wooded area near Hallock and Palmer streets. Investigators were able to connect the animal to Overton through “multiple citizen tips after media bulletins were put out,” JPD said in a statement.
A conviction to a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals made Overton one of the first names to be added to the county’s animal abuse registry that was created shortly after the incident.





