Man with lengthy rap sheet behind bars again

A local resident with 13 prior arrests in Hays County over the past 25 years is behind bars again, charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance.

Michael Armstead, 46, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in the 700 block of Valley Street. 

According to an email response to a Daily Record request for information about the case, police found a man “bleeding from the head and barely conscious” at the intersection of Gravel and Patton streets around 1:38 p.m. 

“It was learned he was assaulted at 732 Valley Street,” Commander Kelly Bomersbach wrote. “Officers responded there and located evidence of the assault,” she continued without elaborating. The drug charges were added after “further investigation found more narcotics for intended for sale (sic).”

One other person was arrested on possession charges but Bomersbach did not respond to an email inquiry for additional information about the second person arrested, the victim’s injuries or what kinds of narcotics were found.

Armstead’s rap sheet goes back to September of 1993, when he was arrested by the SMPD for assault/family violence. He was arrested by the Hays County Sheriff’s Office for robbery in December of 1997 and by the SMPD for robbery in January 1999. He also has prior arrests for other drug offenses, theft and reckless driving. 

Armstead remained in Hays County Jail on Thursday under bonds totaling $70,000.