Area judge and shrink named

GALLATIN CO.— It appears the former Gallatin County State’s Attorney and her former boyfriend have taken out Emergency Orders of Protection on each other.

Both were filed and granted on September 4.

In her petition Keely Dobbs Wright, of East McClernand Ave., Shawneetown, asks that herself and her two minor children, ages 5 and 8, be protected from her previous boyfriend Mark Harmon, of  West Logan Ave., Shawneetown.

In the dueling EOPs Wright describes Harmon as a 34-year-old white male, 5’8”, 165 lbs., with brown eyes and hair.

She adds that Harmon is “armed and/or dangerous.”

Mr. Harmon wasn’t as kind, which does not necessarily mean his description is not accurate.

Harmon describes his ex as a 41-year-old white female, 5’6”, 200 lbs., with green eyes and dark red hair.

He goes on to add in the space provided on the OP form for distinguishing features, “tribal tattoo above buttocks” (commonly referred to as a ‘tramp stamp’), “large breasts & buttocks from surgery.”

He also added that Wright was not only “armed and/or dangerous” but “suicidal” as well.

With all the appropriate catch phrases checked to ensure granting of an EOP, Wright wrote a lengthy two-page narrative.

Keely’s side

“I have gotten a prior order of protection against the Respondent” (Harmon in this case), Wright wrote. “He violated that order and plead guilty.”

Wright claimed that Harmon came to her residence at about 11:30 p.m. August 30 and knocked hard on her window in an attempt to get her attention.

But Wright said she wasn’t at home that night and that she had a babysitter staying the night.

“The babysitter said she was afraid to answer and he knocked again rattling the windows and yelling, ‘Keely why are you calling me restricted?’” Wright said.

Wright said she had not spoken to or called Harmon in more than two months.

“This is when he took my little girl’s iPad and ran over it,” Wright wrote, making it sound as if the iPad incident prompted her not communicating with Harmon.

Wright said Harmon continued banging on the window until the glass cracked.

And that was about the time the babysitter yelled, “Keely is not here!”

Harmon is then said to have walked over to the kitchen door and began rattling the knob in an attempt to get in.

Honking over nails

Wright then skips in her narrative and claims that Harmon has had his cousin text her asking if she would see Harmon.

“I replied in a text, ‘NO I DON’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIM,’” she said.

The following day (no dates given) Wright said Harmon showed up in front of her house in his truck as she and her children were leaving to go to the store and “started laying on the horn,” demanding that she get his nails out of her garage.

She said she didn’t know of any nails and watched as Harmon turned and started up the alley behind her house.

“So I called the police station and drove around to the back and he (Harmon) was already out of his truck up on my fence looking in my yard,” Wright said.

Psychotic?

Wright said when chief of police Bob Boone showed up Harmon was trying to get into her garage and was ordered by the chief to leave and that there were no nails in the garage.

Wright said as Harmon was leaving he verbally harassed her saying that she was “psychotic and all types of ridiculous comments.”

“I told Bob I was going to get an OP and apparently he (Harmon) overheard me and decided to do the same thing,” Wright said.

She went on to say she and her children were afraid of Harmon.

“I worry that if I am not granted this order that he will hurt me or come on my property or further harass me,” she said. “His violence and harassment is a constant fear and it is affecting my children’s sense of safety as well.”

Harmon’s version mentions judge

While Harmon’s handwritten narrative isn’t as articulate as Wright’s, it does raise eyebrows.

Harmon claims that an area judge had sent Wright a gift believing at the time that she was single.

“Keely filed an Order of Protection in Feb of this year Due to a womans scorn, Got with a former colleague of hers from past, a Judge Tom Foster, who we had received a bottle of perfume n letter From assuming she wuz single at time, But was with me, He, Judge Foster recused himself from case expeditiously,” Harmon wrote. “[She filed the OP] All Because she thought I was having sex with my ex who is married and been divorced for almost A Decade.”

Harmon said he believed the OP was taken out by Wright because she was rejected.

“It was not out of Fear of Bodily injury,” Harmon said. “I have NEVER HIT A WOMAN IN MY LIFE.”

Dr. Julie Handwerk, the shrink

The second jaw-dropper was when Harmon said he felt that Wright’s shrink, Dr. Julie Handwerk, was overmedicating Wright.

Handwerk, oddly enough, has been linked to a pair of troubled officers in Saline County.

Sources indicate one of the officers has successfully sued Handwerk for overmedicating him and making sexual advances on him while he was a patient.

While taking copious amounts of medication, that officer was convicted of felony Aggravated Battery in a Public Place.

The second Saline County officer is considering filing a similar lawsuit against Handwerk.

“Dr. Julie Handwerk Has her on so much Medication that it makes her unpredictable, Dr. Handwerk has received numerous complaints and is possibly responsible for The Death of a Police Officer among the many patients that Dr Handwerk Dated,” Harmon wrote in his OP petition.

Attacked in living room, punched

Harmon claims that in July, Wright attacked him in his own living room with her two daughters present.

“And my two daughters present,” Harmon said. “My oldest Had to Beat her off of me with a Gillios Pizza Boxes that were empty.

He also claimed that August, Wright punched him in the face while they were in his driveway.

“She threatened to cause great Bodily Harm w/ an Illegal SAWED Off shotgun,” Harmon said. “With this information And The fact That she has told me she would shoot me as her brother Already killed A Man In Cold Blood, Please Help me you honor,” Harmon said.

No findings, plenary granted

On Sept. 17, both Harmon and Wright appeared before judge T. Scott Web.

According to the day’s record sheet, both Harmon and Wright agreed to a two-year Plenary Order of Protection.

Whether or not the order of the court rectifies the volatile situation remains to be seen.

Unrelated

In an unrelated story, Robert Shane Rash, of 448 McHenry St., Equality, has been charged with Criminal Damage to Property and Reckless Conduct after authorities say on June 15, he damaged property belonging to Bonnie Hopson identified as a Polaris 4-wheeler, concrete deer and a camper, all while knowingly endangering the safety of Ms. Hopson.

Damage was estimated between $300-$10,000.

Rash is expected to appear back in court later this month.