Report: Athens man threatens neighbors over grill smoke

This Athens man could serve as the poster child for anger management classes.

Charles Cecil Craft Sr. drew an aggravated assault charge after he got upset when smoke from a neighbor’s grill blew into his yard.

He was arrested last Wednesday after he allegedly threatened two women with a knife over the offending smoke, according to a report in the Athens Banner-Herald.

Craft has been charged with aggravated assault three times since 2004; in those incidents, he stabbed a man in the neck with a knife, he shot a man in the foot in a second incident, and in 2008, he repeatedly beat a man with a stick.

There were other incidents dating to 1994, police told the newspaper.

Alcohol may have played a role in Craft’s alleged willingness to assault, police told the newspaper.