A convicted felon who was angry about how his girlfriend’s case was handled will now face serious charges, too, for threats he was recorded making during phone conversations with her at the Jones County Adult Detention Center.
Micah Shane Stringer, 47, was expected to be charged with making threats after he was recorded telling 26-year-old inmate Kelley Baldridge that he had a new gun and would be “comin’ for” public defender Cruz Gray and Jones County Circuit Court Judge Dal Williamson, according to transcripts of conversations Stringer and Baldridge had on a jail phone on Thursday. The transcript was included in a motion Gray filed with the court to withdraw from the case.
Stringer is quoted as making disturbing statements, most of which aren’t suitable for print. Throughout the conversation, he acknowledged that the conversation was being monitored, even saying, “I’m hoping they recording this.”
He accused the judge and attorney of “working together” and claimed he was “gonna own Jones County ... It’s about time somebody steps up and shows their n - - - s in Jones County, and Shane Stringer’s the mother f - - - - n’ one. So guess what, Here I come.”
He also threatened to beat up an unidentified local bail bondsman and, at one point, he asked, “Why do you think I’m untouchable?” After that, he directed his ire at Williamson and Gray again, saying, “And you can tell the judge and Mr. Cruz this right her, ‘F - - - y’all, ’cause I’m comin’ for y’all too. Tell ’em to record that. Tell ’em to lick my b - - - s.
“I’m tellin’ you I’m going on a g - - - - - n rampage. I don’t give a f - - -. You out to see the g - - - - - n gun I just bought ... (it will) cut their mother f - - - - n’ asses in half.”
Baldridge was in court last week expected to plead guilty to felonious child abuse for “poisoning her unborn child” by using illicit drugs on Dec. 24, 2021 — the day before the baby was born, according to court documents.
But Baldridge withdrew her guilty plea when she was denied placement in the Jones County Drug Court Program. She wasn’t accepted, according to court documents, because she has been diagnosed as bipolar/schizophrenic and because she “has no viable residence in which she won’t be with a convicted felon ... in active addiction.”
That’s apparently what set off Stringer, who has been convicted of grand larceny among other run-ins with the law. The jail docket shows that the Mississippi Department of Corrections has put a hold on him. District Attorney Brad Thompson said that his office will be pursuing charges against Stringer for the threats.
In his motion to withdraw from the case, Gray wrote that “acrimony may develop when an attorney’s proposed legal strategy fails .... (but) the breakdown in communication between Attorney and Baldridge in this case surpasses mere disagreement and has manifested in irreparable distrust and aversion to Attorney’s advice.”
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