Update: Man Found Sleeping In Vehicle Handcuffed For Resisting Arrest
Update at 2:20 p.m.: Sonora Police have updated some details regarding this story, adding that “Sonora PD officers were dispatched to a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot at the intersection of Theall and Stewart Streets. A 911 caller reported a subject passed out in his vehicle with the driver’s door open and an aggressive dog inside.” They also noted the “dog lunged at one of the officers and attempted to bite his arm” but was later “safely turned over to a family member who was called to the scene.”
Original post at 8 a.m.: Sonora, CA — A Sonora man found sleeping in a vehicle with his dog was handcuffed for resisting arrest and Sonora Police reported the canine tried to bite an officer.
While patrolling downtown Sonora recently, an officer contacted 22-year-old Michael Gross, of La Grange, who was sleeping in his vehicle in the Farmers Market parking lot off Theal Street in downtown Sonora. When the officer tried to wake him, police reported the dog attempted to bite the officer.
Gross refused to follow commands to exit the vehicle, noted police, but eventually did when backup arrived and he was detained.
“The officers observed objective signs of intoxication and placed Gross under arrest for being drunk in public,” according to the SPD.
A search of Gross turned up metal knuckles and that is when the SPD says that Gross became “physically aggressive” when the officers attempted to put him in the back seat of the patrol car. They added, “He attempted to kick one of the officers in the chest.”
Subsequently, Gross was arrested on felony charges of resisting arrest, possession of metal knuckles, and being drunk in public. Police added that his “blood alcohol level was over three times the legal limit.”
