NP Police use taser to arrest theft suspect who threw a hatchet
NEW PHILADELPHIA – Police last week used a taser to take down a theft suspect who threw a hatchet toward them.
Brandon Carling
Capt. 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. He 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.
Carling pleaded not guilty to charges of resisting arrest, theft and aggravated menacing in New Philadelphia Municipal Court on July 7. He was in the Tuscarawas County Jail with bail set at $5,000. The case is scheduled for trial in New Philadelphia Municipal Court on July 22.