A Cody man is in jail on charges of stalking, violating a protective order and interfering with police after a search warrant at his home turned up homemade explosives, authorities say.

Randall Bailey, 64, was charged this week with one count of violating a protective order and one count of interfering with police — which are both misdemeanors — plus two counts of stalking and burglary.

He is in the Park County Detention Center as of Friday.

Hyperventilators

The investigation began Sunday morning when Cody Police Officer Rachael Boydston was dispatched to a report of a protective order violation at a home in Cody. The woman who reported the violation, Bailey’s ex-wife, was hyperventilating during her 911 call, says an affidavit Boydston filed in court this week.

Boydston arrived, met with the ex-wife and found the woman breathing shallowly and labored, speaking tearfully about how she was “tired of dealing with this,” the document said.

The woman gathered herself and explained that she had cameras on the outside of the house, at least one of which was facing her vehicle’s parking spot.

The night before, she watched the video, which showed Bailey walking up to her boyfriend’s vehicle, grabbing the door handle, then walking to her vehicle, the woman told Boydston, according to the affidavit.

The woman said she had to stop watching the video because it shocked her. He gave it to Boydston.

The officer’s perspective

Boydston documented what he saw on video.

At 5:32 a.m. Sunday morning, a van was Bailey pulled up behind the woman’s boyfriend’s vehicle, Boydston recounts in the video.

A man got out of the van and approached the vehicle, checked the door handle, then walked toward the ex-wife’s vehicle, the officer wrote. She opened the front door of her vehicle, closed it, then opened the rear driver’s side door.

Every time he opened a door, the dome light came on, Boydston wrote.

He leaned through the rear driver’s side door and rummaged around in the back of the vehicle for about 20 seconds, grabbed something, closed the door and began walking back to his own van, looking at the new object in his hand, Boydston wrote .

Then he left.

The woman told Boydston that she knew the man was Bailey from his appearance and demeanor.

The Stakeout

On Monday morning, before school, Boydston and Cody Police Department Officer Daniel Villalobos stood watch near his ex-wife’s house, waiting for Bailey to drop off his children there so they could catch him afterward and arrest him for alleged burglary. — once his children were no longer with him.

Another officer told Boydston over the radio that he saw Bailey’s vehicle, a gold Chrysler van, traveling north on 17th Street Hill, the affidavit says.

Boydston wrote that Bailey made an unsafe turn, had a bike rack obstructing his license plate and ran a stop sign and pulled him over.

commands

Bailey entered a business parking lot on 17. Boydston told him he was being arrested for violating a protective order.

“I just dropped the kids off,” Bailey said, according to the document.

Boydston said they would review the details of the case later, and either she or Villalobos asked Bailey to get out of his vehicle six times in total as the situation escalated, Boydston wrote.

“He turned the wheel to the left,” she wrote, adding, “Officer Villalobos placed his left hand on the driver’s side window and told Randall to pull over.”

The two officers were about to break Bailey’s driver’s side window, the affidavit states.

One or both asked him a seventh time to get out of the vehicle, and he did so, but was “passively noncompliant” with their search efforts, Boydston wrote. He was handcuffed and put in the police car.

Van search

At 1:12 a.m. Wednesday, Boydston and Villalobos executed a search warrant on the Chrysler, the affidavit said. Inside it, they found the ex-wife’s ID badge, Boydston added.

They also found a working stun gun that they had already unearthed from Bailey’s jacket during his arrest. They found the stun gun in the glove compartment because they had put it there themselves, the officer noted.

In the rear compartment of the jack, officers found a loaded Ruger .357 revolver with six live-action rounds loaded in the cylinders, Boydston wrote.

The affidavit says they also found several keys that appeared to pair with “a safe of some sort.”

For Boydston, it all added up to “a strong tendency for there to be additional evidence of stalking, harassment and their instruments” in Bailey’s home.

She requested a search warrant. In her haste, she applied first to one judge, then to another, when the first judge did not quickly get back to her. Both judges ended up signing the warrant, Boydston wrote.

raid

Cody detectives and Park County sheriff’s officer personnel joined Boydston for the search at 10:24 a.m. Wednesday, the document states.

Sheriff County Park Detective Clayton Creel found two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along the east wall of Bailey’s garage, Boydston wrote, noting that they were made of gray PVC, had white end caps and a green fuse coming from the device, and were about 6 centimeters long.

at that moment, everyone has stopped searching, they exited the garage and called their supervisors, the affidavit says.

Police Department Patrol Lt. Cody Beau Egger called in the Natrona County bomb squad and K-9 unit to help collect the devices, the document said.

During several searches, agents found a total of 10 firearms, eight rifles and two handguns, Boydston wrote. One of the guns had a “homemade suppressor-type item,” she added. A provision of the protective order against Bailey prohibits the possession of weapons, the statement said.

Agents also found a dash cam, a pocket dash cam, Apple Air Tags, license plate tracking devices and game rooms, the officer wrote.

Boydston wrote that agents swabbed the IED for DNA at 6 p.m., then removed it from the scene.

The Tally

If convicted of the charges filed so far this week, Bailey could face up to 21.5 years in prison and thousands. of dollars in fines.

Felony stalking and burglary are punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. Police interference is punishable by up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines when charged as a misdemeanor (which is here); and violating the protective order carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and $750 in fines.

Bailey’s record at the Park County Detention Center indicates that police also recommended a charge of possession of explosives. The charge did not appear formally in his court record.

It is unclear at this time from Bailey’s filing who will represent him in court. The Park County Public Defender’s Office did not immediately respond to a phone message requesting comment.

Bailey’s ex-wife declined to comment Friday.

Clair McFarland can be contacted at [email protected].