Incident Spotlight
This morning at 5:17 a.m. one of our officers ran a license plate and discovered the driver of the vehicle had a Joplin city warrant.
As he got the information, the driver had parked at a residence and gone inside. The officer watched the male come back out of the house and get into the back seat of the vehicle. Another officer joined the first officer and they contacted the male. He first pretended to be asleep. He then came to, grabbed a pair of vice grips and began threatening to kill himself by using the vice grips on his throat. He refused to cooperate and became more confrontational.
A taser was deployed, but wasn't effective. A second taser was deployed, causing the male to drop the vice grips. He was removed from the car but kept fighting the numerous officers that were now on scene, before finally being taken into custody.
Medical attention was brought to the scene and he was transported to the hospital for a 96 hour evaluation. With preliminary information, it appears that narcotics were involved in the incident and the male possibly swallowed an unknown narcotic. Nobody was injured in the incident.
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