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February 21, 2012

Police deploy stun gun during foot pursuit

Mark Schlachtenhaufen The Edmond Sun

EDMOND — A 22-year-old Clinton man faces felony DUI and obstructing an officer complaints after a traffic stop led to a foot pursuit and multiple uses of a stun gun, police said.

Early Saturday morning, Edmond Police Officer Dusty Phillips observed a white four-door Mercury traveling northbound on Boulevard weaving across the divided lanes of traffic, according to a report filed by Officer Phillips.

He initiated a traffic stop in the 900 block of South Boulevard, but the car went north on Boulevard and then turned east on Seventh Street, police said. It continued heading east and turned south onto Jackson Street where it stopped, police said.

The driver side door flew open and the driver fled on foot west in an alley between Seventh Street and Eighth Street, police said. Officer Phillips ordered the suspect to stop several times and he did not comply, police said.

Officer Phillips chased the suspect through the alley, ordering him to stop, police said. The suspect tried to jump a chain link fence on the north side of the alley into a backyard, according to the police report.

Officer Phillips grabbed the suspect and ordered him to stop, police said. The suspect resisted by flailing his arms to break the officer’s grasp; the officer used his stun gun, making contact with the suspect, the report states.

During the cycling of the stun gun, the suspect rolled over the chain link fence, police said. As Officer Phillips hopped the fence, the stun gun cycle ended; the suspect jumped up and began to run through the backyard, police said.

When Officer Phillips caught the suspect he still actively resisted by trying to break the officer’s grasp, police said. They both rolled over another chain link fence onto a driveway, police said.

Officer Phillips continued to order the suspect to stop; he did not, police said.

The suspect broke away and began to run through front yards, police said. They ran over a driveway and the suspect tried to jump a fence into a backyard, police said.

Officer Phillips grabbed the suspect who still tried to jump the fence and break free from his grip, police said. The officer then “drive stunned” the suspect in the right lower back area and they struggled on the ground, police said.

After the officer got on top of the suspect in a back mount position, he still resisted by trying to buck the officer off his back, police said. Officer Phillips drive stunned him again in the back left shoulder blade area while he was on the ground, police said.

The suspect then stated he was “done” and brought his hands from underneath his body to the small area of his back, police said.

When Officer Phillips asked the suspect why he ran, he said he didn’t want to go to jail because he did not have a driver’s license, police said.

Gavino Lopez Hernandez, 22, of Clinton, was arrested on complaints of felony DUI, obstructing an officer and cited for driving without a valid ID, the police report states.

Two full pages of the report were redacted.

No record was available for the suspect at the county jail.



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