A West Des Moines man was arrested early Saturday after allegedly threatening a woman with a knife in a West Des Moines motel.
Kenneth Lee Walker, 56, of 7655 Office Plaza Dr., West Des Moines, was charged with assault while displaying a dangerous weapon, first-offense possession of a controlled substance-methamphetamine, unlawful possession of prescription drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The incident began about 1 a.m. Saturday in the 7600 block of Office Plaza Drive, where officers of the West Des Moines Police Department responded to a report of a disturbance.
The officers made contact with the victim, who told the officers that Walker allegedly “did grab a large knife and attempted to place it on the victim’s chest in a threatening manner,” according to court records.
“While threatening the victim with the knife,” Walker said to the victim, “Bitch, what you doing? Are you trying to kill me?”
The victim told the officers that she believed Walker was experiencing “mental issues” and that it was her “last day” and “that she would have died if” Walker “would have stabbed her,” according to court records.
In the course of arresting Walker, the officers “observed known drug equipment” in Walker’s residence, and a search warrant was ordered and executed by detectives of the Mid Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force.
The search disclosed “a small baggie of a crystallized substance, two bottles (with no name) of white pills identified as gabapentin (prescription only) and multiple drug equipment,” including “a glass pipe with burnt residue, hypodermic needles and a green grinder with remnants of a green leafy substance inside,” according to court records.
Walker is held in the Dallas County Jail on a $3,000 cash or surety bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Sept. 28 in Dallas County District Court.
Walker was arrested at the same location in June on a charge of disorderly conduct-fighting/violent behavior. The charge was later dismissed in Dallas County District Court. He was arrested in Des Moines in February on charges of three counts of assault while displaying a dangerous weapon and two counts of second-degree harassment and convicted in April of two counts of second-degree harassment in Polk County District Court.
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
