Brother pleads guilty to assaulting sister, sent to prison for 5 years

During the Dec. 7 session of Ozark County Law Day, Matthew B. Wollin, 39, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree domestic assault pursuant to a plea agreement with the state. He was sentenced to 5 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. Credit for time served and probation were denied through the formal judgement entered in the case. The victim in the case was in court and approved of the plea offer, online court records indicate. 

According to the original probable cause statement prepared by Ozark County Deputy Seth Miller, the Ozark County Sheriff’s dispatch office received a call reporting an assault on O Highway in Udall on June 11. 

The reporting party, Sarah Wollin, said her brother had assaulted her and taken her vehicle. 

“I arrived on scene and spoke with Sarah. [She] was visibly distressed and asking for medical attention. I observed her and found injuries to her left knee and two swollen hard knots on her head,” Miller wrote in his report. “She stated she had gathered items of Matthew’s out of her 2006 Volvo car, placed them into a plastic bag in the yard and contacted Matthew via text to pick the items up. She stated Matthew came to the property, choked her, hit her several times on the head and threw her into another vehicle on the property. While Matthew was doing this, he stated several times that he was going to kill her.”

Sarah said one of the items in the bag was a semi-automatic 22lr handgun. She described ammunition and drug paraphernalia that was found in the vehicle and took pictures of the items, according to the report. 

Miller took photos of Sarah’s injuries and left to go to Matthew’s house on O Highway. Sarah was transported to Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Arkansas, for the injuries she sustained. 

Once at Matthew’s residence, about a half-mile away from Sarah’s house, Miller found a silver Volvo car registered to Sarah. 

Miller knocked on Matthew’s front door and announced himself as a deputy with the OCSD, ordering Matthew to answer the door. He did not answer the door or respond to the deputy in any way, the report says. He was arrested at the scene and transported to the Ozark County Jail. 

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