A man accused of breaking several windows to his mother’s home and shop in Lewis County near Dryad before slicing his neck with a piece of broken glass in July 2024 has been arrested.
Brad Lee Lansford, 46, of Chehalis, was booked into the Lewis County Jail on a $25,000 arrest warrant at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, according to jail records.
The warrant was issued on July 11, 2024, the same day Lansford was charged in Lewis County Superior Court with one count of second-degree malicious mischief, domestic violence.
The incident itself was reported on July 6, when the victim called police to report that Lansford was “possibly intoxicated,” had a knife and “had broken several windows to her residence and shop” in the 400 block of Leudinghaus Road, according to court documents.
The victim reported that “she feared (Lansford’s) behavior due to him having a knife,” according to court documents.
A responding deputy found that six windows on the property had been broken, with damage estimated at roughly $500 per window.
Law enforcement personnel reportedly tried to contact Lansford at a trailer he lived in on the property, “but he would not come out,” according to court documents.
Deputies obtained a warrant to enter the trailer and noted “a lengthy process was needed in order to secure (Lansford).”
After Lansford exited the residence, he allegedly “picked up a broken piece of glass and held it to his neck and sliced it horizontally across,” according to court documents.
He was ultimately airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment.
After receiving medical treatment, Lansford was held in a psychiatric ward for approximately three months, according to defense attorney Rachael Tiller.
During Lansford’s preliminary hearing in Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday, Tiller told the court that the victim had reached out to her and the prosecutor’s office to express that she was “adamant” about not pressing charges against Lansford.
Tiller also noted Thursday that she believed the affidavit of probable cause filed in Lewis County Superior Court on July 11, 2024, was “not complete.”
Judge Joely Yeager granted the prosecution’s request Thursday to maintain Lansford’s bail at the $25,000 that was set in the arrest warrant, citing domestic violence convictions from 2023 and 2022 on Lansford’s record and the fact that Lansford had evaded arrest for almost a year.
Arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, May 15.
