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Armstrong man charged with felony DWI, animal abuse

Justin Addison, Editor/Publisher
Posted 2/4/25

An Armstrong man charged with animal abuse, property damage, and driving while intoxicated is out of jail after posting a $10,000 bond on Thursday of last week. Timothy David Vroman, 44, faces felony …

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Armstrong man charged with felony DWI, animal abuse

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An Armstrong man charged with animal abuse, property damage, and driving while intoxicated is out of jail after posting a $10,000 bond on Thursday of last week. Timothy David Vroman, 44, faces felony charges of driving while intoxicated and animal abuse and misdemeanors for property damage and leaving the scene of an accident.

According to probable cause statements filed with the court, Vroman was observed by witnesses hitting a mailbox while driving his blue Dodge Ram pickup after leaving Casey’s in New Franklin shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, January 29. The witness also reported that Vroman swerved over the lines, passed another vehicle up a hill in a no-passing zone, and attempted to pass a motorcycle on the shoulder of the roadway while traveling north from New Franklin toward Fayette on Highway 5.

Tire tracks were observed in the yard of the home on Broadway in New Franklin, where the mailbox was damaged, and the deputy reported finding damage to the front bumper of Vroman’s truck on the passenger side after he had located the vehicle in the parking lot of DJ’s, a convenience store on Highway 5 in Fayette. The deputy also reported finding various alcohol containers in the truck. The probable cause statement detailed that a breathalyzer test resulted in a blood-alcohol level of 0.200. The legal limit in Missouri is 0.08. Vroman later declined further sobriety testing at the sheriff’s office.

The night prior, on January 28, another Howard County Sheriff’s Deputy was dispatched to Vroman’s home in Armstrong for an intoxicated, unresponsive male. Upon entering the house, the deputy reported seeing blood stains and a grey and white pit bull in a cage bleeding from its tail. Vroman was in the home and allegedly admitted to emergency personnel to having consumed alcohol. 

During an interview with officers at the sheriff’s office around 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, Vroman admitted to using a sword on the pit bull, damaging its tail and left foreleg.

Reportedly weak from blood loss, the dog was taken to the Howard County Veterinary Clinic, where its tail later had to be amputated.

Vroman faces one count each of felony driving while intoxicated, felony animal abuse, misdemeanor leaving the scene of an accident, and misdemeanor property damage. The DWI charge is a felony due to prior convictions of excessive blood alcohol and driving while intoxicated. The two felony charges carry a range of punishments of up to four years in prison.

Vroman is scheduled to be arraigned before Judge Garreth Cooksey on Tuesday, March 18, in Howard County Court.

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