Mears fought deputies during all-out slugfest
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The suspect, Waymon Mears, 40, is charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault, assault, vandalism and one count of filing a false report.
According to Sheriff Jackie Matheny, the incident began when Mears forced his way into a home of a stranger and demanded to use the telephone. The victims said Mears appeared to be paranoid and was accusing them of hiding people in rooms inside their house. It was during his forced entry the victims say Mears held a 16-year-old boy at knife point on a couch, accounting for the aggravated assault charges.
During the tirade, Mears reportedly used the phone to call 911 and claim his sister had been shot. Deputies later discovered Mears made up the shooting claim, leading the false report charge.
Mears was found on the front porch of the residence he had broken into, still talking on a cordless phone when deputies arrived. An attempt to take him into custody brought a fight.
“It was a free-for-all,” Matheny said of the arrest. “There was a big fight. One of the deputies got a chipped tooth, one got kicked. It was a pretty nasty incident.”
Mears then kicked out a patrol car window once placed into custody and attempted to kick out another on the way to jail despite being hog tied. His actions, and the alleged fact he was yelling for the first two days he was in custody, makes lawmen suspect he may have been under the influence of some type of intoxicant.