SOUTHPORT — Just hours after bonding out of jail, a Bay County man was arrested again Thursday after another altercation with his wife in a series of events that stretched from Springfield to Southport.
Randall Ralph Holley, 39, 7029 Vinson Road, originally was arrested at his home March 6 on multiple charges and warrants from Bay, Escambia and Washington counties after a multi-day, multi-agency search in the West Bay area. The search came after Holley fought with his wife in Washington County and tried to run over a witness before driving away, authorities said.
He later bonded out of jail in Bay and Escambia counties, then bonded out of Washington County jail Thursday. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, after Holley was released, his wife picked him up and they came back to Bay County. Holley’s wife told deputies that during the drive, the two started arguing again. Holley told her to go to a home on Transmitter Road, which she did.
A BCSO release said when Holley got out of the vehicle, his wife drove away quickly, leaving him behind because she was afraid. She drove to Southport and was at the intersection of State 77 and County 232 when she looked in her rear view mirror to see Holley standing in the bed of the truck behind her. Deputies later learned Holley had gotten a ride from someone and followed her and jumped into the truck bed from another vehicle.
Holley picked up an old water pump from the bed of the truck and used it to smash the back window of the truck, cutting his wife’s head in the process. He then climbed through the back window into the truck cab, and his wife drove the truck into a parking lot and got out with Holley chasing her. Several witnesses intervened to stop him and he jumped back into the truck and drove away, BCSO said.
At about 4:30 p.m., deputies found Holley on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Panama City and took him into custody without incident.
Holley was taken back to the Bay County Jail on charges of throwing a deadly missile into a vehicle, and aggravated assault domestic violence, both felonies. He is scheduled to have a bond hearing Saturday at which his new bond could be set.