After story on warrant for his arrest Shad Olson takes on-line anger management course. And maybe handles things he should have handled long ago.

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I get the impression that Shad Olson got a scolding about cooperating with the justice system in South Dakota. And maybe didn’t want to revisit the greybar hotel in Meade County.

If you recall, last week I reported on how the court in Meade County had issued a warrant for Olson’s arrest right before Christmas, and he was a wanted man, as the warrant was active:

 

Less than 24 hours after my January 2 story on how there was a warrant out for Shad’s arrest, it appears that he parked his tail in front of a computer to take a 12 hour course on anger management from courseable.com on “Anger Management: Mastering Emotional Balance,”  as completed at 8:19 PM on January 3rd.

Also interesting, it appears that Olson has a new attorney. This attorney is in Aberdeen.  (Which I had surmised might be one of the locations that police should look to find him. IYKYK)

Shad Olson court filing January 5 by Pat Powers

The filing also includes documents that aren’t available to the public as alluded to in the court record, including a “Record of Defendant’s ongoing equine sensory therapy, a voluntary effort by Defendant since August 2024 as a limbic system resetting methodology to assist in training for anger management.”

Because an internet course and telling the court that he’s been touching horsies is going to correct the behavior of someone accused of choking a woman off the ground and shaking them as he hoisted her in the air by her throat? As per the probable cause statement that ended him up in this position in the first place:

As of yesterday, it looks as if the information that should have been reported to the court months and months ago has suddenly made an appearance through his new attorney in Aberdeen.

All well that ends well?  Not really.

There’s a crime victim. And a perpetrator who got off lightly. A perp who needed a story on his new arrest warrant to get him off his tail to follow the order of the courts who let him off very lightly in the first place.

10 thoughts on “After story on warrant for his arrest Shad Olson takes on-line anger management course. And maybe handles things he should have handled long ago.”

  1. Articles such as this, holding perpetrators of violent crimes accountable for their actions is so important – thank you. I would ask that we use the correct terminology for acts of DV and say strangulation vs choking. These terms are very different incidents; one is blocking of the airway by object. The other is a manual act by a person attempting to kill another person. The statistics show that strangulation is one of the most lethal forms of DV, increasing the odds for homicide by 750%. Any abusive person making the choice to strangle another person has the intent to cause permanent irreparable damage to the victim.

    1. Well said! It should also be noted, for anyone truly interested in holding an abuser like Olson accountable that Anger Management is not a recommended therapy. Anger management is not an abuser’s problem – they manage it just fine. Generally only lashing out at the victim they abuse. He’s a menace and a loser. I wish the justice system had truly held him accountable.

    2. Strangulation used to mean to kill someone by use of choking. Similarly, electrocution used to mean death by electric shock. But those definitions were allegedly changed at some point, and I’m not sure why. I submit that choking still the correct language unless someone has passed away.

  2. I am no Scooby Doo, but a quick search and minimal digging shows that the issuant of the certificate Coursable.com, appears to be a real website offering online courses and issues certificates, but there is no independent evidence that it is universally recognized or formally sanctioned by courts or state authorities.

    Nice try!

  4. Horse therapy? Like the therapy that former legislator, Minnesota resident Chris Ryder provides?
    Him, Brandei, Carl, Logan, Al and Tubby, what an embarrassment for our state. What’s in the water in NW South Dakota?

  5. And remember it was the RC wingnuts who provided the money for his bail, the Frye sisters and others.

  6. a journey of a thousand hours of community service – begins with a single empty pop can in the trash bag.

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