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Investigation of a domestic disturbance in Aline led to the arrest of a man on unrelated felony charges.

According to court records, on June 1 Alfalfa County Deputy TJ Rockenbach was called to Ash Street in Aline for a domestic situation between a man and woman. Before he arrived dispatch advised the man had left the residence in a white Dodge pickup, driven around the block, parked the truck and was walking back to the residence.

When Deputy Rockenbach arrived, he spoke with the woman who said the man, Dustin Edsall, had tried to choke her and pushed her across the room after a verbal argument. Deputies Loren Nusser and George Leibsch arrived to assist.

Rockenbach questioned Edsall who said he told the woman to help him do the dishes. He said she threw a shoe at him and swung her fist at him so he wrapped her up in his arms to avoid getting hit. He said he did not put his hands on her neck, and Rockenbach could not detect any marks on the woman’s neck. The woman said she just wanted Edsall to leave and not come back.

Deputy Rockenbach asked Edsall if he had any place he could go and stay. He said he could stay with his family in Oklahoma City. Rockenbach asked where the pickup was, and Edsall said he ran out of gas over by the park in Aline. Rockenbach asked where he got the pickup, and he said he hit a deer while driving his mother’s car and left the car near Hennessey for a tow truck to pick up. He said he walked to his dad’s farm and borrowed the Dodge pickup to get to Aline.

Rockenbach sent Deputy Leibsch to check out the pickup, which he found parked on the south side of the Aline city park. Leibsch said the license plate was bent up so that it could not be read so he straightened it out and called dispatch to obtain the tag information. Dispatch ran the tag and found it had been reported stolen. Rockenbach asked Nusser to place Edsall under arrest since he admitted he drove the pickup over to the park.

While taking inventory of the pickup, Rockenbach located a small black binder that contained eight debit cards with various names, two military IDs belonging to one individual and one DOD vendor ID belonging to another individual, three Oklahoma driver’s licenses each belonging to a different individual, one international driver’s license and numerous blank checks belonging to different people. Also inside the binder were two checkbooks belonging to separate individuals.

In a further interview, Edsall admitted they had left the car in the country and went to his dad’s farm and took the pickup. The pickup had a cattle cake feeding box on the back, and Edsall stated he had advertised it on Craigslist and sold it to an individual in Kansas but did not know the person’s name.

Dustin Ray Edsall, 37, of Piedmont has been charged with three felony counts: (1) knowingly concealing stolen property, (2) unauthorized use of a vehicle and (3) taking or receiving stolen credit or debit card. The first count carries a penalty of imprisonment in the state penitentiary not to exceed five years or in the county jail not to exceed one year or by a fine not to exceed $500 or by both fine and imprisonment. The second count is punishable by a fine of $500 to $5,000 or imprisonment for one to five years or both. The third count is punishable by imprisonment for up to three years or up to $3,000 fine or both.