WATERVILLE, Maine — An intoxicated Waterville man who refused to cooperate with police wound up cooling off in jail, police said.
Waterville police had numerous units patrolling the downtown area late Friday into early Saturday, according to Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey, and one man, Bennie Coutu, 33, had been trying to pick fights on Temple Street around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
Police repeatedly warned Coutu that if he kept attempting to instigate fights, he would be arrested, according to Rumsey, and when he threw a punch at somebody, officers had enough.
Coutu wouldn’t go quietly, however, as officers struggled to get him into custody, Rumsey said. The suspect finally complied when one officer deployed his stun gun.
Coutu was booked on charges of disorderly conduct and refusing to submit to arrest and taken to Kennebec County Jail.
Nobody likes a nasty drunk.
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“Deployed… stun gun” is a wonderfully ambiguous phrase. When used in an officer’s after-action report, it could mean “I zapped the dude back into last week,” or “I held up Mr. Sparky and said ‘You want some of this, buddy? Huh?'” or just about anything in between.
Well its better than “drew his gun and fired his weapon”. I’d rather see them pull out their stun-gun on these types any day over resorting to a much more aggressive use of force. It could have just as easily escalated to something much worse but it didn’t because they could use a non-lethal use of force that stops the problem just as quickly.
” Feeling lucky , punk?”
Keeping it classy.