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Freedom Township Altercation Lands Man in Jail

A Gallitzin man was jailed after an altercation with Freedom Township police resulted in one officer getting kicked.

According to Freedom Township police, an officer was on patrol when he spotted a vehicle parked near the intersection of Dunnings Highway and Municipal Street and two men standing outside the car.

When the officer stopped to question the men, he discovered they were both “extremely intoxicated.” When the officer requested the men to sit in the back of his cruiser to get them off the roadway, one man complied but the other, identified as Devin McMullen, 24, began walking around the cruiser and began yelling and screaming while attempting to make a call in his cellphone.

Police were able to put McMullen in handcuffs and detain him. The female driver of the vehicle was instructed to follow police to the Freedom Township station. According to police, when they pulled into the parking lot of the Freedom Township Firehall, McMullen began “acting erratically” and was again “yelling and screaming,” and making “foul statements” and telling the officer that he will “have his job.”

While still inside the cruiser, police said McMullen began throwing his body against the cage and windows of the cruiser and was spitting repeatedly through the partition into the front seat as well as in the back seat.

When police interviewed the other people involved, a man and two women, they were told that McMullen had pushed and shoved one of the women, pulled her hair and damaged her vehicle.

While interviewing the others, police said McMullen continued his tirade inside the vehicle. With assistance from Greenfield Township police, the officer opened the door to reason with McMullen, but he used his legs to push himself out of the vehicle onto the ground and kicked an officer in the leg.

McMullen is facing a felony count of aggravated assault, as well as misdemeanor counts of simple assault, criminal mischief, obstruction of law enforcement, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

McMullen was arraigned by Martinsburg Magisterial District Judge Andrew Blattenberger and placed in Blair County Prison on $50,000 bail.

 

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