Debris is strewn about at a farm near Idaho Falls. Challis resident Michael Bauchman has been charged with using a tractor at the site to damage farm equipment, property and hay.
Debris is strewn about at a farm near Idaho Falls. Challis resident Michael Bauchman has been charged with using a tractor at the site to damage farm equipment, property and hay.
Challis resident Michael Bauchman remains in jail in Bonneville County in lieu of posting $35,000 bond on two charges of burglary and one charge of damaging property.
Bauchman was was arrested and jailed Feb. 21 in Bonneville County after sheriff’s deputies had to wrangle him from a tractor cab. He appeared in Bonneville County Magistrate Court on Feb. 22 where he pleaded not guilty to the charges. A preliminary hearing for Bauchman was scheduled for March 6.
Bauchman, 39, was detained by sheriff’s deputies at a farm at 7364 W. Broadway after a 911 call came in at 5:15 p.m., according to court documents.
Bonneville County Sheriff’s Sgt. Bryan Lovell said the caller told dispatchers that Bauchman was driving a tractor and had tried to run the man over. The caller also reported that Bauchman had damaged other farm equipment and hay.
When deputies arrived at the farm, Bauchman was driving a tractor and damaging property, Lovell said.
According to Lovell, Bauchman ignored commands from officers to stop and deputies “deployed less lethal impact rounds into the cab of the tractor to incapacitate Bauchman enough to take him into custody.” Lovell said Bauchman struggled with the deputies even after he was handcuffed.
The 5:15 p.m. call followed a 4 p.m. report to the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office from a nearby home on South 65th Street. A child who was home at that house went to a neighbor’s house to tell them that a man he didn’t know was in the house on 65th Street, court documents state.
Deputies determined Bauchman had been in that house. They found a backpack in the garage that contained documents with Bauchman’s name on them.
Witnesses told deputies that Bauchman slashed tires on a car parked at the 65th Street house.
After his arrest, Bauchman was taken to a hospital, where he was cleared for release, Lovell said. He was then jailed. Court documents state that Bauchman told a deputy he had gone into the house on 65th Street looking for gas.
Lovell said the farmer estimated damage to a John Deere tractor and other equipment at the farm exceeds $125,000.
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