A 32-year-old man is charged with the aggravated assault of a Maricopa police officer and faces a number of different associated fees after an indignant Fourth of July confrontation.
A Maricopa Police Division doc states officers had been responding shortly after 9 p.m. to a site visitors hazard at John Wayne Parkway and West Ferrell Street. Peter J. Rodriguez, who was watching the fireworks present at Copper Sky, video recorded and yelled at law enforcement officials after they arrived. He had nothing to do with the site visitors hazard.
That is what members of the fringe anti-government sovereign citizen movement name a “First Modification audit,” outlined by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit Freedom Forum as “when individuals movie public officers or staff to carry them accountable or ‘take a look at’ their proper to movie in public areas.”
First Modification audits often finish in arrest. Such was the case for Rodriguez.
Officers ordered Rodriguez to depart the scene a number of instances and never intrude with their investigation. Officers additionally informed Rodriguez to remain off the highway, however he refused, the report states.
Extra models had been referred to as to the scene when Rodriguez refused to depart, however he continued to video document and yell at officers.
When one officer ordered Rodriguez to clear the scene, he allegedly informed the officer, “F*ck you.”
The officer then “impression pushed” Rodriguez away.
Rodriguez allegedly approached the officer “as if he was going to struggle him” and stated, “Contact me the f*ck once more motherf*cker,” throwing his cellphone to the bottom.
Officers on the scene assisted the guy officer with grabbing ahold of Rodriguez to handcuff him. Rodriguez, who resisted arrest, was taken to the bottom and handcuffed, police stated.
Officers then transported Rodriguez to the Maricopa Police Division after he refused to establish himself, one other hallmark of the First Modification auditor. Cops lastly discovered his driver’s license in his pocket.
Rodriguez was handled for a laceration he sustained in the course of the arrest.
Moreover assault on the officer, Rodriguez faces fees of resisting arrest, refusal to establish himself, obstructing a thoroughfare, prison nuisance and obstructing governmental operations.
Rodriguez was being held immediately on $2,500 secured bond in Pinal County Jail.
His preliminary listening to is about for midday Friday in Pinal County Superior Court docket.
He faces as much as three years for the felony assault on an officer cost, and as much as two extra years on the extra fees.
