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Published October 02, 2009 10:54 pm - MIAMI, Okla., —- Maybe this weekend will be different. Maybe not.
Last weekend, two unrelated emergency calls left local law enforcement officers investigating a couple of strange cases. The first: a man accused of assaulting police with a horse. The second: a man accused of assaulting several vehicles with a weed eater.


Miami police ponder strange cases



By Krista Duhon

news@joplinglobe.com

MIAMI, Okla., —- Maybe this weekend will be different. Maybe not.

Last weekend, two unrelated emergency calls left local law enforcement officers investigating a couple of strange cases. The first: a man accused of assaulting police with a horse. The second: a man accused of assaulting several vehicles with a weed eater.

“Nothing surprises us anymore,” Miami police Chief Gary Anderson said. “If it wasn’t a horse or a weed eater, it might be a shovel … whatever they can get their hands on. We don’t really give much thought to it anymore.”

The first incident took place just before 8 p.m. Sunday in Ottawa County when David Jerome Wilson, 39, of Wyandotte, allegedly tried to knock sheriff deputies over with his horse in an attempt to elude the officers, according to a probable-cause affidavit signed earlier this week by District Judge Robert Haney.

Deputy Christopher L. Hardison said deputies and a member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribal Police responded to 68500 E. 128 Road, where the complainant said she and Wilson had been in a altercation. She alleged that Wilson had hit her several times in the face and had been trying to cause his horse to walk on her.

“At that point, I saw David coming down the road riding a horse with a beer in his hand,” Hardison wrote in the affidavit. “I asked David to get off the horse and talk to me several times. David refused and was trying to lead the horse away, telling us ‘no.’ ”

A deputy reached out and grabbed Wilson by the arm, according to Hardison, and that is when Wilson allegedly attempted to force the deputies to the ground — by way of horse.

When Wilson later dismounted, deputies attempted to place him under arrest.

Wilson allegedly became combative and law enforcement officials had to wrestle him to the ground as he argued with the complainant as to whether or not he had hit her, according to Hardison’s written statements.

The probable-cause affidavit alleges that Wilson refused to walk to the patrol car, refused to get in the patrol car and, even after he was inside the patrol car, spat on the officers, kicked the officers and attempted to kick out the glass protection panel.

Wilson was booked into the county jail with felony charges of assault and battery upon a police officer, placing bodily fluid on a police officer, domestic abuse and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. His bond was set at $6,300.

About two hours after Wilson’s encounter with county and tribal law enforcement officers Sunday, Miami police faced their own bizarre case.

Anthony Boyd Dixon, 39, allegedly used a Troy Bilt weed trimmer to bludgeon three vehicles in the parking lot of a local bar. Police reports indicate that Dixon damaged a 2003 PT Cruiser, a 2007 Toyota Camry and a third vehicle, a truck, that left the scene before police officers arrived.



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