A woman accused of trying to kill her estranged husband in August is back in jail after law enforcement officials say she violated conditions of her bond by making contact with the victim.
Brooke Hale, 34, was arrested Wednesday night and remains held at Warren County Jail without bond. She is charged with six counts of violating an order of protection, and six counts of violating conditions of her bond by contacting her husband, Mike Hale.
Brooke Hale was already facing charges of attempted murder for an attack on Mike Hale that occurred in the parking lot of the VFW in August. Prosecutors say Brooke Hale and her boyfriend, Jack Redmon, attacked Mike Hale with Redmon stabbing him twice. Redmon remains in jail unable to make a $300,000 bond for attempted murder.
Brooke Hale was able to make her $100,000 bond, but as a condition of that bond she was not to have contact with her husband. He had also taken out a protection order against her so that contact violated the protection order as well.
According to warrants filed against Brooke Hale, sheriff’s investigator Jason Rowland has documented six times where she reportedly contacted Mike Hale via cellphone. The warrants detail the date and time of the calls and also the duration.
One warrant contends Brooke Hale contacted Mike Hale on Nov. 13 at 4:57 p.m. with the call lasting 4 minutes and 57 seconds. Brooke was said to contact Mike twice more on that day, once on Nov. 15, and twice on Nov. 16.
However, Mike Hale says he doesn't want any harm to come to Brooke and he certainly doesn't want his wife to be sitting in jail.
"We're trying to rebuild our home," said Mike. "We're going to stay married and work this out. It's difficult right now, but there was never any harm between me and Brooke. The only problem was between me and Jack Redmon. I don't want this to be happening to Brooke. It's not right what they're doing to her. We want to get our family back together."
District Attorney General Lisa Zavogiannis said she is not treating the case lightly.
“The violation charges are serious, but the underlying charge is very serious too,” said Zavogiannis.
Sheriff Jackie Matheny said his department received information Brooke and Mike Hale were having contact and a resulting investigation led to the warrants against her.
The sheriff said Mike Hale would not be in any trouble if it was determined he contacted Brooke.
“He took out the order of protection against her and that’s not a mutual thing unless she also took one out against him,” said Matheny. “He is the victim in this case and he doesn’t have bond conditions.”
Hale is set for her first court appearance on the violation charges this morning at 8:30 a.m. in front of Judge Bart Stanley. Since she is currently being held without bond, it is suspected she would request a bond hearing, which would be held at a later date. Her trial on attempted murder is not scheduled to begin until June 29, meaning she will have to remain in jail until that time if she is not given bond or cannot make the bond she is given.
