Ronan man, woman charged after gunshots fired
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POLSON – A 22-year-old Ronan man has been charged with robbery, assault with a weapon and two counts of criminal endangerment after bullets allegedly whizzed by two children last month. A woman has also been charged in the incident.
Nathan Joseph Mahseelah was arrested following an incident in Pablo on Aug. 27.
Police responded to Felsman Street when a woman said a bullet passed by her 12-year-old daughter when she was sitting on her bed. A next-door neighbor said a bullet passed so close to her son’s head that it blew his hair, a court document states.
Lake County Sheriff’s Officer Joel Diaz deduced that the shooting took place at a residence on Panshot Avenue, which intersects Felsman Street west of U.S. Highway 93, northwest of Pablo Foods.
A man who went out to get a license plate number off of a vehicle that Mahseelah was in was backed into by the vehicle, which was being driven by its owner, Angelina Marie Dempsey, a court document states. The man said his back was injured.
According to a court document, Mahseelah went into a residence and demanded his cell phone, waved a pistol around and pointed it at another man and forced him to give up his cell phone.
Mahseelah allegedly fired three shots that went through a wall and exited the residence. Diaz recovered a bullet from another residence and found one in the street.
Mahseelah denied taking a cell phone or firing a weapon and said he had gone to the residence for his phone, the court document states.
He is being held on a $50,000 bond and a probation violation for a criminal possession of dangerous drugs conviction from 2015.
Dempsey, 42, of Ronan, has been charged with robbery, assault with a weapon and criminal endangerment. She is being held on a $25,000 bond and a probation violation for a criminal possession of dangerous drugs conviction from 2016.
According to a court document, Dempsey provided support to two men in the Aug. 27 incident and was non-cooperative with law enforcement. Her probation officer said she was in a drug treatment program for two weeks prior to her recent arrest and had had repeated relapses with alcohol and methamphetamine.
