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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (USA) —
Sometimes crime can get so bizarre that you just have to call in the
dogs.
Here's one incident where the police report reads like a mixture of Columbo
and Scooby-Doo.
On the night of Oct. 1, Cookeville Police Officer Jeff Johnson was
sent to Nova Circle on a report of an attempted suicide and domestic
disturbance. Officer Johnson and his Malinois partner
"Rex" arrived on the scene and noticed a man in a Dodge mini-van
backing out of the driveway. "I
activated my siren," reports Officer Johnson. "The van
was still slowly backing into the street. I exited my patrol
unit and went to the back passenger side and yelled to the subject to
stop the vehicle." At that point, the
officer reports, the man put the mini-van into drive and "accelerated,
aiming at me." Officer Johnson was
struck in the arm by the van which continued on to the street and
drove off. The officer got in his patrol car and pursued the
vehicle but lost sight of it at Mine Lick Creek and Hawkins
Crawford. He returned to the residence to investigate. Here's where the "Dumbest Crime Spree of the
Week" part comes in... According to the
report, the mini-van showed up at the residence a few minutes later.
The fugitive (who later confessed that he had taken "a couple of
bottles of No Doz [caffeine pills]") got out of the vehicle in a "very agitated state"
and began yelling, "Kill me, kill me!"  (No,
Wags. That's "Kill me, kill me." ...Aw,
never mind.)
Officer Johnson ordered the man
to get on the ground, which the man did. However, he got up
again and advanced toward the officer still yelling, "Kill me, kill
me." The officer resorted to the use of pepper spray which had little effect,
as did the use of his police baton. "He then broke out the window on his
van," reports Officer Johnson, "and at
that time, I was in fear of bodily injury and released my K-9 to
apprehend the subject." K-9 Rex jumped
out of the patrol car and brought the man down by the
leg. The assailant was handcuffed and charged with domestic assault, vehicular assault, DUI, evading arrest, and resisting
arrest. He was taken to a hospital and later
sent to a mental health facility for evaluation, the Herald-Citizen
reports.
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