Ash Grove’s Stovall charged with harassment, violating protection order Suspect pleaded guilty last year to three counts of sexual misconduct, currently in custody after recent incident

Nathan Stovall
An Ash Grove man is in custody at the Greene County Jail after being arrested for allegedly violating an order of protection which barred him from contacting a former co-worker. Nathan Stovall, 21, was booked into the jail on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
Stovall allegedly contacted victim via social media, made different accounts when old ones were blocked
According to the probable cause statement in the case, the victim in the case approached officers with the Springfield Police Department in October of this year and told them that since May, Stovall had been sending her images and explicit videos via social media, as well as inappropriate messages.
The woman told police that she was not in a romantic relationship with Stovall and did not ask him to send the messages. She also said that she blocked all his original accounts, but he would make new ones to try to continue to contact her, one of which was under the name “Matt Smith.”
The woman received an order of protection against Stovall, forbidding him from contacting her, and Stovall was served with the order on October 26 of this year. However, Stovall allegedly contacted the woman via social media on Friday, Nov. 4, in which he reportedly sent her an inappropriate picture and message.
Stovall was on probation for sexual misconduct at time of latest arrest:
At the time of his arrest, Stovall was on probation after pleading guilty in August to three counts of sexual misconduct. According to the two probable cause statements in the case, Stovall was seen engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct in the presence of individual women on three different occasions.
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