Bloomfield man arrested on warrant for stalking charge

BLOOMFIELD ---- A Bloomfield man was arrested Saturday night at the Bloomfield High School after a warrant was issued for his arrest on a stalking charge.

Michael Van O'Neal, 21, was spotted Saturday night at a basketball by Bloomfield Town Marshal Terry Wade.

Wade contacted Bloomfield Officer Kenneth Tharp who came to the high school to arrest O'Neal. O'Neal was transported to the Greene County Jail where he bonded out after posting a $4,000 bond.

The stalking charge was filed after the victim, Christy Schartzer, called Tharp to the Bloomfield IGA on Jan. 2. A decapitated wild boar's head had been left on the windshield of her car.

According to court documents, she told Tharp she had dated O'Neal but had broken off the relationship in September 2002, but since the break-up O'Neal had called her numerous times on her cell and residential phone. She said when she drives by his residence he runs out in the road. He also bothers her at her place of employment.

Schartzer told Tharp she is worried about what is going to happen next.

"I never know what he is going to do. There is always something done rather it be to me or my car," Schartzer told Tharp, according to the probable cause report.

On Jan. 16, Tharp went to O'Neal's residence to talk to him about the situation.

O'Neal passed off the wild boar's head on the windshield as a joke.

According to court documents, O'Neal stated that he and a friend were out and about and "found the wild boar's head."

They picked it up and went to the Bloomfield IGA where Schartzer works.

O'Neal told Tharp he and his friend thought it "would be funny" to place the head on her vehicle. He told Tharp it was "mainly my idea" and it was done as a "joke," according to court documents.

No court date had been set in Greene Superior Court as of press time today.