Minnesota Man Charged With Assault After Release From Jail

BETHANY, MO – A Minnesota resident who was released from jail in Harrison County yesterday landed back in an Iowa jail overnight.

Twenty-two year old Baley James Turner was given a 30-day sentence for assault with credit for time served after entering a guilty plea at Harrison County’s Law Day.  In that case Turner was accused of assaulting an inmate in the county jail in a dispute over a television remote in July. 

After he was released, authorities say Turner got into an altercation with a Bethany man.  Turner allegedly attacked the victim with a foldable hand saw.  The victim was life-flighted to Truman Medical Center due to the extent of his injuries.  He is now charged with first degree assault causing serious physical injury.

Turner was apprehended in Iowa and is being held in the Warren County, Iowa Jail.

Turner has an extensive criminal history including a Harrison County conviction for tampering with a motor vehicle and burning the vehicle in 2018.  For that charge he received a suspended imposition of sentence and is on probation.  

Minnesota court records show Baley was convicted of burglary and theft of a motor vehicle in 2018; and theft of a motor vehicle and fleeing a peace officer in 2020.  He also served time in Minnesota for deprivation of parental rights in 2019 after he picked up a 12-year old child from her home and assisted her in running away.  Turner was 18 years old at the time and said he met the girl on Facebook.  Authorities were able to find Turner and the 12-year old after he rolled his vehicle with the girl as a passenger.  An additional theft of a motor vehicle in Minnesota was dismissed.  When he was released on Thursday Turner had an active warrant in Minnesota.