Lindsay A. Stevens was released from the Fannin County jail last week, but not until Chief Magistrate Judge Brian Jones accepted an agreement by attorneys to reduce her $100,000 bond.
Jones had set that bond during Jones’ initial appearance hearing July 24. She had been arrested the previous night and charged with six separate felony counts of aggravated assault.
Warrants allege she pointed a handgun at her victims, five of them minors.
Jones said an attorney for the District Attorney’s office and Stevens’ court-appointed attorney agreed to a bond amount of $20,000. He accepted their offer and signed a new bond order Tuesday, August 4. Stevens was released the same day.
The bond order includes 14 stipulations, and if Stevens violates any of them she can be arrested and jailed immediately, Jones said.
Among those conditions is that Stevens must have no contact in any way, directly, indirectly or through third parties, with any of the victims or witnesses in the matter. If she comes within 100 yards of any of them she must remove herself from the situation immediately.
There are also conditions prohibiting any law-breaking activities, drug or alcohol use. She must submit to drug screenings and searches.
According to a report filed by Fannin County Deputy Sheriff Richard Gazaway, Stevens’ troubles began with claims a group of individuals bullied her daughter in the Walmart parking lot in Blue Ridge sometime around 8 p.m. Thursday, July 23. Stevens’ daughter told Gazaway, “the guys started kicking the tail lights of the car and barking at their little sister.”
The daughter then called Stevens who went to Walmart with her boyfriend and confronted the group.
Stevens, 37, of 7 East Fain Street, Blue Ridge, and her daughters then followed the group to the Dry Branch Day Use Area (Green Creek). When they arrived, the daughter said they had a BB gun laying on the dash and the people saw it, started yelling gun, and ran.
Gazaway was dispatched to the Dry Branch disturbance at 8:46 p.m. in reference to a woman threatening people with a gun. On the way, he and Georgia State Patrol Trooper First Class Michael Martin met the Stevens vehicle headed back to Blue Ridge on Aska Road and performed a felony traffic stop. It was after that stop Stevens’ daughter admitted to the BB gun being in the vehicle and told Gazaway where to find it.
Stevens and her daughter were taken to the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office where Gazaway interviewed them and the six individuals who said they had been threatened. One of the juveniles told Gazaway, “Lindsay was saying she would kill everyone for bullying her daughter.”
All the witnesses statements accuse Stevens of pointing and waving a gun.
In her statement, Stevens stated “she was doing what any other mother should do.”