HOT SPRINGS -- A man who attacked his girlfriend last summer, leaving her with broken bones, facial fractures and internal bleeding, was sentenced to six years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to charges.
Steven Ray Fisher, 32, who has remained in custody since his arrest July 10, 2019, pleaded guilty in Garland County Circuit Court to one felony count of second-degree battery and four felony counts of violation of a protection order, for sending her letters from jail, and was sentenced to six years on each count, to run concurrently.
Fisher also was ordered to pay $1,450 in court costs and was permanently barred from any future contact with the victim. He had been convicted on Aug. 21, 2019, on 15 misdemeanor counts of violation of a protection order involving the same victim and sentenced to one year in jail on all the charges to run concurrently.
According to the probable-cause affidavit on the battery charge, on July 10, shortly after 8 p.m., Garland County sheriff's Deputy John Blunkall was dispatched to a residence in the 100 block of Rachel Carson Terrace regarding a physical disturbance.
He encountered Fisher outside and noted a strong odor of intoxicants on his breath and that he was "acting in a very nervous manner." He asked Fisher what was going on and Fisher claimed he returned home and found his girlfriend, 23, in bed with another man and their two young children and he "overreacted and hit her."