Overview
- Deputies and the Crisis Outreach and Support Team arrived around 7:10 a.m. Monday to serve a mental-health writ at a home in the 200 block of Pond Ridge Road.
- The 41-year-old man initially held a hatchet in a bedroom but put it down after deputies spoke to him through the closed door, according to officials.
- Authorities say the man then discharged a large canister of bear spray at close range, striking one deputy in the eyes and affecting several others.
- Deputies used a Taser to subdue the man and took him to a hospital for treatment, where he allegedly kicked a nurse.
- One deputy was hospitalized and six others were treated on scene, and the sheriff's office says it will seek criminal charges with specific counts pending.