Bowling Green Police were called Saturday (11/29) around noon to an apartment where a man reportedly had a gun pointed at a woman. Officers were enroute to the residence in the 1500 block of East Clough Street, when dispatch reported the man had gotten into a Toyota Tundra and was driving toward East Wooster Street.
An officer pulled over the truck in a parking lot on East Wooster, and saw that the driver, Jacob Sanford, 36, of Louisville, Kentucky, had an empty holster on his waistband. Sanford told police the gun was in his truck.
The gun was found under a pillowcase containing a snake, on the front passenger floor of the pickup. The Smith & Wesson was loaded with one round in the chamber. A backpack that had fallen out of the truck as it turned onto East Wooster reportedly contained boxes of ammunition.
Sanford told police he had come to Bowling Green to collect his possessions from the apartment. His wife, also in the pickup, said he had previously had an affair with the woman in Bowling Green.
His wife and two other adults stayed in the pickup, while Sanford and his 14-year-old daughter went inside to get the possessions he had left behind. Sanford went upstairs, and his daughter reportedly tried to follow, when the Bowling Green woman refused to allow the teenager to go upstairs.
At some point, Sanford returned downstairs and said his daughter had been shoved by the woman. He reportedly pulled his gun from his waistband and put it against the woman’s head. The woman’s friend at the apartment said she saw his finger on the trigger.
Sanford left the apartment, and the women locked the door and called police.
When police questioned the teenager, she said her dad had pulled out a gun.
Sanford denied pulling the gun on the Bowling Green woman, but said he had to defend his daughter. However, the police report noted that while in the back of a police cruiser with another person from the pickup, Sanford was recorded as saying “she’s lucky her head’s still on her f—— neck.”
He was arrested for felonious assault and taken to Wood County Jail.
