EDWARDS CO. – The woman who was the victim of a brutal assault on a cold early February day has at last taken out an Order of Protection against the ex-boyfriend who allegedly assaulted her.
Stormie Vallette (also known as Stormie Locke), 26, of the Edwards County side of Grayville, petitioned the Edwards County court for an OP against Marcus Adams, almost 29, now residing in Mt. Carmel, this on May 18.
Vallette, who has heretofore not been identified by name as the woman who was one of the victims in a rampage Adams engaged in on February 7 of this year in Indiana, sought protection from Adams not only for herself, but for her two children, ages 7 and 3.
On that February date, Adams is alleged to have taken off in Vallette’s father’s truck after allegedly battering Vallette and her son and breaking the legs of the family dog.
Adams had called Vallette to come get him in Owensville, Indiana (what he was doing there is unknown, as they were living in Bellmont in Wabash County at the time, but it was fortuitous that that’s where he was, as, had he pulled any of these stunts in Illinois, likely very little of it would have been charged), and when she arrived is when he lost it and allegedly carried out the rest of the described actions.
He compounded his problems when he is alleged to have ditched the vehicle in the vicinity of Duke Energy not far from Owensville and to have stolen a Kubota utility vehicle from Duke. For that alleged act, on March 13, he was charged with a count of Auto Theft in Gibson County Superior Court, a serious felony in Indiana.
Adams was never charged with anything in connection to the alleged physical harm inflicted upon Vallette, her son, or their dog.
He was also never charged with any infraction in Illinois in association with the day’s events.
So for her own protection and the safety of her children, Vallette chose to get an OP, in which she outlined allegedly violent behavior experienced at Adams’ hand over the past many months.
Back in September of 2017, Vallette wrote in her petition, Adams “threatened to kill me and my whole family; choked me, held me down with a knife.”
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She went on to say that in November of 2017, Adams choked her; in December of 2017, he choked her until she passed out; and in January of this year he choked her and threw her into things.
The top entry on the petition was apparently the last straw.
On May 11, Vallette wrote, “He was at his cousin’s house so was I. He came into the bedroom I was sleeping in and started choking me because I had told him I did not want to get back together with him, I’m pregnant. Said he was going to shoot me.”
Vallette got her emergency order entered on May 17, and on June 1, that was upheld as a plenary (two-year) order.
Adams seems to be a protected person ever since his bust in 2009 in Wabash County when he was among a dozen folks hemmed up in a pill- and meth-slinging roundup. Already a criminal at the tender young age of 18, when he was charged with felony Aggravated Battery in July of 2007 (and which was pled down to a simply battery misdemeanor three weeks after it was charged), Adams was sentenced to 3 years in the Department of Corrections in August 2009, but through magical prison math, was charged in Wabash in March of 2010 with Cannabis Delivery…which also was supposed to have sent him to IDOC, this one for 5 years as issued in March 2012.
Whether he spent any time in DOC is unknown, as Adams was out and about in early 2013 and advancing on a roommate, Jordan Fletcher, in a disagreement in January of that year to the extent that Fletcher, in fear for his life from the violent punk, fired a round at Adams in the house the two were sharing in the Calhoun area of Richland County.
That happened to be Adams’ saving grace – that he was in Richland as opposed to Wabash (or anywhere else for that matter) – and instead of being charged with attacking Fletcher, then-prosecutor David Hyde charged Fletcher.
Fletcher was fortunate enough to be able to obtain the legal services of McLeansboro attorney Alan Downen (as well as the replacement of Hyde with a real prosecutor, Brad Vaughn), and in May of 2016, the charges of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm and Aggravated Domestic Battery, both felonies as charged against Fletcher, were dismissed in exchange for a plea to misdemeanor Reckless Conduct.
Why Adams is such a protected person, therefore, should become obvious to those who know how the courts and cops work sometimes in southern Illinois…and Vallette is fortunate to be away from him, although it’s unfortunate that she won’t truly be rid of him ever, now that she’s pregnant.
Adams is next set to appear in court in Gibson County, Indiana, on June 28. The case is progressing very slowly through the court system there.
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