DUNCAN — Allegations he pointed a gun at his mother and threatened to shoot her has landed a Duncan man behind bars.
Even after police discovered the handgun was actually a BB gun, due to a prior felony conviction, Antonio Joel Sanchez is looking at between 20 years to life in prison if convicted.
Sanchez, 44, made his initial appearance Tuesday in Stephens County District Court where he was charged with a felony count of assault with a dangerous weapon, records indicate.
Duncan police were called around 11:45 a.m. Monday to a home near 4th Street and Maple Avenue regarding a man with a gun threatening his mother. The mother told police her son, Sanchez, became angry with her after she tried to clean trash off the property, Officer Riley Hobbs stated. She said he was “acting erratically and threatened to hit her,” the probable cause affidavit states. He then went into a parked trailer on the property, she said, and retrieved a firearm.
The mother said Sanchez pointed the handgun at her and said he would shoot her, the affidavit states.
Sanchez told police he was only carrying a BB gun and that it was in the camper, the affidavit states. A Barra branded BB gun was retrieved from the trailer, according to Hobbs.
Sanchez has two prior felony convictions from Stephens County: August 2010, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; and July 2015, second-degree burglary, records indicate.
Sanchez’s hearing Tuesday was terminated until an attorney could be present to represent him.
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