Pocatello police were dispatched to Pacific Recycling on the 3500 block of Highway 30 around 5:45 a.m. Saturday for the report of a man, later identified as Goddard, who had just pointed a shotgun at an employee, according to police records the Idaho State Journal obtained Monday.

Upon arrival, police interviewed the recycling employee, who said Goddard had previously been trespassed from the business so an employee met him at the front entrance of the building to see why he was on the premises, police said.

When the employee approached Goddard, he told the employee not to come any closer and pointed the loaded shotgun at him, police said. When Pacific Recycling contacted police, Goddard drove away from the scene, according to the police report.

Police conducted an area search and located Goddard standing outside of his red pickup tow truck with another truck attached to the rear crane of the vehicle, which was parked at the Stinker convenience store, also on the 3500 block of Highway 30.

Police first walked by the truck and observed a shotgun inside the vehicle before arresting Goddard without further incident, police said.

Pocatello police described the shotgun as a black 12-gauge shotgun with a 3-inch chamber and wooden stock, adding that the firearm had a spent slug shell in the chamber and a live buckshot in the magazine.

About 35 minutes prior to Pocatello police dispatch fielding the call from Pacific Recycling, a resident of Ridge Street, which is in the immediate vicinity of the recycling plant, contacted police to report hearing what she described as a gunshot and a loud argument between a man and a woman, according to police reports.

Pocatello police also said the front windshield of Goddard’s truck was shattered “and appeared to have been shattered by a hard object hitting it.”

Goddard was charged with felony aggravated assault, arrested and booked into the Bannock County Jail in Pocatello following the Pocatello police investigation.

He appeared in front of 6th District Judge Steven Thomsen for an arraignment hearing Monday, during which his bond was set at $50,000 and a no-contact order was issued between him and the victim.

Goddard is due back in court on Aug. 22 for a preliminary hearing that will involve prosecutors attempting to prove there is enough evidence against him to elevate the case from the magistrate to district court level for trial.

If convicted of the felony aggravated assault charge, Goddard faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000.