CASPER, Wyo. — A Mills woman recently accused of threatening a man with multiple knives also faced a probation revocation on Tuesday and was sentenced to a term in prison.
Sandra Kay Cooper, 54, is presumed innocent of the aggravated assault and battery charge unless proven or pleading guilty.
Cooper was on felony probation for shoplifting just over $1,000 of merchandise from Walmart in 2022, according to court records in the Seventh Judicial District of Natrona County.
Judge Kerri Johnson told Cooper on Tuesday that the court essentially had no choice but to impose a sentence after Cooper’s third revocation on the theft case. Court documents say Cooper had positive tests for methamphetamine multiple times while on probation. She is also facing a revocation on a misdemeanor methamphetamine possession case in circuit court.
Around 3:40 a.m. Oct. 5, Mills police responded to a disturbance call at a trailer where a man said his girlfriend, Cooper, had threatened him with knife. He said after he snatched the knife from her hand, she came back into the room with a knife in each hand and said, “Go ahead and try to take both these knives from me,” according to the officer’s report.
The man said he had been planning to break up and move out of the residence. He said the evening began with him and Cooper winning several hundred dollars while gambling, and that he’d come home around midnight while Cooper stayed because she did not want to leave.
He said when she got home around 2 a.m., she told him to get out of the bed; when he refused, she came back with the kitchen knife and said, “Go ahead and fall asleep, see what happens,” according to the affidavit.
The Mills officer said the man showed him a picture on his phone of Cooper holding the knife.
Records show Cooper’s bond was set in the assault case at $12,500 cash or surety.
