PARAGOULD, Ark. — A Paragould man was sentenced to 120 days in county jail and three years of supervised probation after pleading guilty in separate domestic battery and terroristic threatening cases.
Wesley B. Hulsey, 24, entered negotiated guilty pleas July 28 in Greene County Circuit Court to third-degree domestic battery and first-degree terroristic threatening, both Class D felonies.
The combined plea agreement called for 36 months of supervised probation and 120 days in the Greene County jail. Hulsey received credit for 50 days already served toward the jail sentence.
The domestic battery investigation began June 8 when Paragould police responded to a disturbance.
A woman told officers Hulsey had been driving erratically while they traveled through the city. She said she asked Hulsey to pull over, and he stopped in a Verizon parking lot.
As the woman attempted to get out, Hulsey put the vehicle in drive and pulled forward, throwing her to the ground and injuring her right elbow, according to the probable cause affidavit.
The woman reported waking the following morning with pelvic pain and seeking medical treatment.
Prosecutors filed the domestic battery charge as a felony because Hulsey had previously been convicted in Tennessee of domestic assault involving bodily injury in 2024, the affidavit states.
In the separate threatening case, Greene County sheriff’s deputies took a report June 9 from a man who said Hulsey had threatened to kill him.
Detectives interviewed the man and a witness. According to the affidavit, the witness provided video showing Hulsey saying, “I’m going to murder him in front of her.”
The charging information lists June 6 as the offense date in the threatening case.
Hulsey was also ordered to pay a $500 fine, $150 in court costs, a $60 booking fee and a $250 public defender fee.
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