New Philadelphia Police last week used a taser to take down a theft suspect who threw a hatchet toward them.
Captain David Morris says Walmart reported an extremely agitated man stole a baseball bat and threatened to blow up the store on Thursday, July 3rd. Police responded and confronted the man who had ditched the bat but was holding a hatchet, and threw it in the
general direction of one of the officers.
Morris says the suspect – 35-year-old Brandon Carling – refused to get on the ground, and Morris did not want to take any chances. (he says he knows Carling to carry a knife, so instead of engaging by hand, Morris used his taser to end the confrontation and arrest Carling)
At last check, Carling was in the Tuscarawas County Jail with bail set at 5-thousand dollars on charges of resisting arrest, theft and aggravated menacing. An arraignment hearing is set for Thursday.
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