A 47-year-old Brown County man faces multiple felonies after police say he drunkenly entered a home, then tried to flee from police, threatened officers and urinated in a police car.
Sgt. Keith Lawson with the Nashville Police Department responded to an apartment on South Johnson Street on July 29 for an intoxicated man who was out of control. Scott Lee Wood had left by the time Lawson arrived.
The caller told police that Wood had opened her door and walked in after being asked to leave. She asked him again to leave, which angered him. He kicked a dog and put a hole in the drywall, according to a probable cause affidavit.
As Lawson was leaving the apartment, Officer Dan Klaker reported he found Wood’s vehicle on Wallow Hollow Road and that he was in pursuit of it. When Lawson arrived, Klaker had Wood restrained, sitting on the tailgate of the truck. Lawson reported that Wood’s speech was “heavily slurred,” that he had poor balance, that he could smell alcohol on him and that his eyes were watery and bloodshot, the affidavit states.
Wood told police he would not consent to a chemical test. He was taken to jail and a search warrant was granted for his blood. He was then taken to Columbus Regional Hospital.
As Lawson was leaving the jail with Wood, Wood began verbally abusing Lawson, calling him names, the police report said. Lawson wrote that Wood asked him if he had a bulletproof vest on and if it would stop a rifle or 30 rounds. Lawson asked Wood if he was threatening him, but Wood said no; he was asking a “simple question,” the report said.
Wood told Lawson to drop his equipment and fight him. He said Lawson’s weapons would be useless against him because he wouldn’t see him coming anyway, the police report said. Wood continued to deny that he was threatening the officer.
At the hospital, Lawson noticed that Wood had urinated on himself and on the floorboard of the police car. Once inside, Wood ignored several requests to stop making “excessive noise” by Lawson and hospital staff, according to the affidavit.
When the lab technician came in to draw Wood’s blood, he began kicking and thrashing until an officer with the Columbus Police Department was able to talk him into complying. While waiting on the results, Wood continually looked in Lawson’s direction saying “I’m gonna get that melon,” the affidavit states.
As they were leaving the hospital, Wood began yelling that when they arrived at the jail and the handcuffs came off, it would be “time to square off.” He began to kick the gun rack in the vehicle, splashing urine on Lawson’s arm from the floorboards, the report said.
Inside the jail, Wood began to verbally abuse officers and threatened to fight them. He eventually said that when he get out of jail he would come back to blow it up.
On July 30, Wood was charged with resisting law enforcement, a Level 6 felony; residential entry, a Level 6 felony; intimidation, a Level 6 felony; resisting law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor; operating a vehicle while intoxicated — endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor; and disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.
