Man Allegedly Called Stalking Victim More Than 500 Times From Arkansas Jail

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – A man currently in jail for violating a protective order after being put on probation for violating a protective order is now accused of calling the woman listed as a victim in those cases 555 times from the Garland County jail since his last arrest in March.

Cliffton Montana Pate, 30, was placed on a 12-month probation on March 9 for violating a protective order forbidding him to contact his ex-girlfriend. In her October 2025 petition for a protective order, the woman stated that Pate had assaulted her and had assaulted her mother when she attempted to intervene.

In the petition, the woman said Pate, “breaks into my home at night while I’m asleep and tries to crawl in my bed.”

“He has choked me,” the woman said. “He has left a scar on my forehead from repeatedly head-butting me. He stalks me. He follows me. He hides in the woods on my property. He creeps around outside my bedroom window.”

The protective order is in effect until January 2036, according to a probable cause affidavit.

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The court also issued a no-contact order at Pate’s plea hearing which prohibited any contact with the victim.

On March 18, just over a week after being placed on probation, Pate was arrested at the woman’s property shortly before midnight. 

Pate had been arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing on Dec. 31, 2025, Dec. 28, 2025 and Dec. 24, 2025, and convicted of those charges Jan. 2, according to a probable cause affidavit.

At the time of his March 18 arrest, Garland County Sheriff’s Office deputies noted the woman’s “annoyance and emotional distress with Pate’s ongoing harassment, stating that we keep letting him out and he comes right back over,” the affidavit said.

That night, while at the jail, a deputy witnessed Pate on the phone and warned him that he better not be calling the woman he had been arrested for harassing.

Pate allegedly replied, “I called her to see if she would get my truck from impound.”

That night Pate was charged with two felony counts of violation of an order of protection, felony stalking, felony trespass and misdemeanor harassment. A trial on those charges is currently scheduled for March 2027. Pate faces up to 20 years in prison on the stalking charge.

Since his March 18 arrest, Pate has allegedly made 555 attempted calls to the woman from jail, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Monday. 

A new case filed Monday charges Pate with felony violation of a protective order and a misdemeanor charge of violation of a no-contact order in connection with the hundreds of calls he allegedly attempted to make to the woman from jail.