LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A 44-year-old man was arrested after threatening Eaton Rapids police with a chainsaw Wednesday morning.
Two officers from the Eaton Rapids Police Division and the Eaton Rapids Fireplace Division have been referred to as to the five hundred block of Lake Avenue at round 11:37 a.m. to analyze a potential violation of the town’s open burning ordinance.
After they arrived, they made contact with a 44-year-old man, who began a chainsaw and threatened them with it. The officers tried to deescalate the scenario and discuss him into dropping the chainsaw, after which the person dropped the noticed and commenced to run away.
Police say the person bumped into his house and barricaded himself in his bed room.
Deputies from the Eaton County Sheriff’s Workplace, officers from the Charlotte Police Division, and troopers from the Michigan State Police assisted with coming into the house. After the person refused to give up, they forcibly entered the room and arrested him with out harm to him or any regulation enforcement.
He’s presently lodged within the Eaton County Jail, and prices are being requested from the prosecutor’s workplace for felony asault and resisting and obstructing an officer.
“I am very proud of the officers who handled this situation and am grateful neither they, the suspect or anyone else was harmed,” says Eaton Rapids Police Chief Larry Joe Weeks. “The officers used incredible restraint handling an incident that easily could have ended very differently.”
