Man arrested after he tries to fight police
A Southport man was arrested after he swung at an officer after being trespassed from a Greenwood restaurant.
Christopher Glen Oswalt, 34, was arrested on charges of intimidation, resisting law enforcement and battery on a public safety officer.
A Greenwood police officer was dispatched to the 2000 block of Fairview Place about 9 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a man who was staring at three women and making them nervous. The officer could not find the man.
About 10:30 p.m., the officer was dispatched to a restaurant in the 1100 block of North State Road 135 to a report of a man who had been inside but was now loitering in the parking lot. Multiple employees attempted to get Oswalt to leave, but he refused, according to a report from the Greenwood Police Department.
Oswalt began walking away from the officer after the officer asked him to stop. The officer followed him through another parking lot when Oswalt yelled at the officer. Oswalt refused to give the officer his identification, the report said.
Oswalt yelled obscenities at the officer and the officer called for back-up. Oswalt grabbed at and swung at an officer, according to the report.
One officer deployed a taser at Oswalt twice. Neither time had an effect on him. Officers kicked Oswalt’s leg to bring him to the ground and he continued to resist arrest by swinging at the officers, the report said.
He was arrested and taken to the hospital and then to the Johnson County jail, where he was held on $3,400 bond.
