A man who could have been arrested for misdemeanor public intoxication was shocked with a Taser gun and now faces a state jail felony charge of evading detention.
Orange police report the incident began about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of Burton Avenue. A patrol officer reported he saw a man standing in the street “swaying back and forth.” When the officer turned around to check on the man, he noticed the man’s eyes were “blood shot and glassy.”
“I believed him to be intoxicated on an unknown substance,” the officer wrote in his report.
The man put both of his hands in his pockets when the officer asked for identification, but the officer told him to take his hands out and turn around to be handcuffed.
The man, though, refused to follow orders, the officer reported. The man resisted arrest and fell to the ground. The officer said he took out his Taser gun, but put it back. The man told the officer “I didn’t do nothing,” and pulled away, according to the report.
The officer pulled the Taser again and shocked the man, but the man ran off into an empty lot. Another officer came and used her Taser to subdue the man.
Police report Eric Dwayne Quinn Jr. was taken to the Orange County Jail. He has a previous misdemeanor resisting arrest conviction from last year. Because of the previous conviction, he now faces a state jail felony charge of resisting or evading arrest, according to police. He also faces a misdemeanor public intoxication charge.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
Why do these idiots think resisting arrest is going to work in their favor? Just curious, did the offender admit guilt by using the double negative “I didn’t do nothing?” 😛
In this instance, a state jail felony seems kinda harsh. OK, the guy was drunk, but he was not creating a problem, harming anyone or stealing anything. He was just drunk. He should have complied. But, his judgement was also impaired by the intoxicant. It doesn’t say if he had drugs on hm, or what he was intoxicated with.