A Fort Worth comic and anti-violence activist is dealing with a cost of animal cruelty and two counts of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon in two separate incidents, in line with Tarrant County court docket information.
According to Fort Worth police information, Charleston White, 46, was arrested this week in reference to a report of animal cruelty in December 2022 and a November 2023 assault.
A criticism filed Wednesday by the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office alleges that White tortured a cat by spraying it with pepper spray final 12 months.
White is charged with two counts of aggravated assault on Nov. 2, 2023, when a caller reported an assault within the 6800 block of Brentwood Stair Road. White initially reported he was the sufferer within the assault, in line with a police report.
In the criticism the district lawyer’s workplace filed in regards to the assault, prosecutors allege that White threatened two males with a gun.
In a video he publicly posted on Tuesday on Facebook, White referred to as the costs “trumped up.” He mentioned the report of animal cruelty was “made up” and was due to a comedy skit.
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“The animal charge, somebody sent a screenshot of a cat, said I done something to a cat. I don’t know what that’s about,” White mentioned within the video.
White goes on within the video to say somebody hit him on the pinnacle with a gun whereas he was asleep after which he got here exterior with a gun to “protect his wife.”
White mentioned within the video that he and his lawyer knew in regards to the warrants for his arrest and that he supposed to show himself in. He additionally alleges that Fort Worth police entered “no bond amount” on his arrest warrants, stopping him from doing a “walk-through” with a choose.
White has been launched on bond. His bond within the assault case was set at $15,000 and the bond within the animal cruelty case was set at $1,000.
The title of the lawyer representing White will not be listed in court docket information.
