Stroud man arrested after allegedly threatening kids with hammer

STROUD, Okla. (KFOR) — A Stroud man has been arrested after he allegedly threatened to hit three local kids with a hammer while they were waiting for the school bus.

According to a probable cause affidavit, officers received a call about a man possibly trying to hit children with a hammer near 2nd Street and Harrison Avenue in Stroud.

When officers arrived, a neighbor told police that 45-year-old Zachary Roberts screaming and cursing at three kids in the neighborhood who were waiting for the school bus. The neighbor also said that Roberts had something in his hand, waving it around and threatening to hit the kids with it "if they didn't shut up."

Court documents say that the neighbor yelled at Roberts to get away from the children. Roberts then reportedly yelled and cursed at the neighbor before riding away on a bicycle down 2nd St.

The children who Roberts allegedly threatened said the object he was holding was a hammer.

Authorities later found Roberts at an address in Lincoln County just south of Carney, who reportedly told them that he didn't threaten anyone but did say "b— shut the f— up."

According to the affidavit, Roberts was asked to bring authorities the hammer he had. When he returned with the hammer, Roberts went on a rant about "wanting to go back to prison so he could kill as many sex offenders as possible."

Roberts was booked into the the Lincoln County Jail on Monday on one count of assault and battery, two counts of threatening to perform an act of violence, and one count of placing bodily fluid on a government employee.