| Roane County police officers arrested a former Calhoun man while they were attempting to issue a mental hygiene warrant Tuesday night in Spencer.
Michael Eugene Myers, 48, now of Church Street, Spencer, is well-known to the Calhoun community as a Civil War reenactor.
Myers is in Central Regional Jail, charged with four counts of assaulting an officer, four counts of brandishing a deadly weapon, and four counts of obstructing an officer.
A criminal complaint was issued after Roane County Sheriff Mike Harper, a deputy and city police attempted to issue a mental hygiene at the Hart House parking lot.
The complaint says Myers was inside a pick-up truck "holding a large steel pipe." Police said they asked Myers several times to exit the truck, but he refused.
"The accused stated if we [police] broke his window the fight would be on," says the complaint, after which he exited the passenger side and "raised the steel pipe in the air."
The complaint says an officer pulled his service revolver and ordered Myers to the ground, with the man still refusing to drop the pipe, after which the man verbally says "You'll have to ------ kill me," several times, still swinging the pipe.
Officers then used pepper spray on Myers, still refusing to drop the pipe. The report says he eventually dropped the pipe as Sheriff Harper managed to tackle him from behind, says the complaint.
Bail is set at $1,500.
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