Friday, January 22, 2010

Deputy Robert Stogner Arrested for Stalking

A West Feliciana Parish sheriff’s deputy was fired Wednesday after being arrested for allegedly stalking a man he believed was seeing his wife.

Robert Wayne Stogner, 48, 8909 Island Road, St. Francisville, tried to contact the man Wednesday at his place of employment, Georgia Pacific’s Port Hudson mill, an affidavit of probable cause said.

Stogner arrived at the mill between Baton Rouge and St. Francisville around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and asked a dispatcher to contact the man via radio, the affidavit said.

Sensing that something was wrong, the dispatcher continued talking to Stogner instead of contacting the mill employee, the affidavit said.

During their conversation, Stogner told the dispatcher “that if he were a crazy man, he could have killed everyone he contacted thus far with the two handguns and the shotgun that were in his truck,” the affidavit said.

The dispatcher told investigators with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office that she saw the shotgun in Stogner’s vehicle, the affidavit said.

Stogner admitted to investigators he went to the mill with his service-issued .40-caliber weapon to talk to the man he believed was having an affair with his wife, the affidavit said.

Stogner also admitted to calling the man and going to the man’s motel room and the mill on previous occasions.

On one of two previous occasions at the mill, Stogner confronted the man with a hammer and a crowbar, the affidavit said. A fight did not ensue, but the man told investigators he felt threatened.

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested Stogner and booked him into Parish Prison on one count each of stalking and aggravated assault.

As a result of his arrest, Stogner was fired from his position with the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said.

The sheriff said Wednesday he wrote a letter to the Secretary of State’s Office asking that Stogner’s law enforcement commission be revoked.

Daniel said that on the same day deputies recovered Stogner’s service-issued weapons from his home.

Stogner started working with the Sheriff’s Office in March 2002, Sheriff’s Office records show. He left the office in June 2008 and was rehired in February. His position with the office as a patrol deputy was part time.

“He did a good job for us,” Daniel said. “He worked a lot of hours at night.”

According to West Feliciana Parish court records, Stogner’s latest arrest was not his first.

Stogner was arrested on Oct. 15, 1993, in St. Francisville for allegedly threatening to beat up his then-wife at a law office, court records show. Stogner was charged with disturbing the peace, simple assault and criminal damage to property.

Stogner was sentenced to one year of probation for the misdemeanor charge of criminal damage to property, court records show. The other two charges were dropped.

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