CLEARLAKE — Police used TASER guns on four people in as many incidents in Clearlake on Sunday, according to a Thursday afternoon press release from the Clearlake Police Department.
Officers were trying to serve Chris Clinton Neely, 48, with a Marin County parole violation warrant at his Clearlake home. When the officer arrived, Neely fled and climbed a fence, according to the release. Neely was stunned with the TASER gun after he refused to listen to the officer”s orders.
A search of Neely”s person produced OxyContin that Neely reportedly had without a prescription. He was booked into the Lake County Jail for on charges of resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance and on the warrant issued out of Marin County.
According to Marin County records, the $150,000 warrant was issued after Neely failed to appear on a charge of commercial bribery. According to California law, an employee who accepts money in exchange for using his or her status to defraud or injure the employers is guilty of commercial bribery. Neely was placed on probation in February 2004.
In a separate incident, Clearlake resident Scott Sullivan, 33, was arrested on charges of public intoxication at his parents” Jackson Street home. The CPD report says Sullivan “began fighting and had to be tasered (sic) in order to be taken into custody without injury.”
A third incident involved Clearlake resident Pegeen Magoon, 43. Magoon was initially reported to be intoxicated and lying in the middle of the road near 6th Street and Oak in the Clearlake Park area. Magoon walked out of nearby bushes when officers arrived. Several cans of alcohol were found on Magoon”s person, a violation of her parole.
The report goes on to say that while she was in the back of the arresting officer”s patrol car, she screamed and yelled “to the point the arresting officer had to pull over.” Magoon began violently kicking the car”s doors and windows, the report says.
When the officer tried to stop Magoon, she reportedly tried to kick him. The TASER gun was used twice for two five-second cycles before Magoon stopped.
The fourth incident happened when Alisa Anders, 34, was reportedly trying to get into a residence where she did not live, according to the CPD report. Anders was unable to tell officers where she lived and became “belligerent” when officers tried to place her under arrest for public intoxication.
“She was taken to the ground where she continued fighting and screaming and at one point, struck on e of the officers,” the CPD report says.
Officers used the “drive stun” mode of the gun several times before Anders stopped fighting, according to the report.
There were no reports of injuries to any of the suspects or officers involved, according to the report.
The report said it is standard practice to have suspects medically cleared after the use of a TASER gun. Lt. Mike Hermann, who is the CPD”s public information officer, could not be contacted to elaborate further on the incidents as the Record-Bee was going to press Thursday night.
Contact Tiffany Revelle at trevelle@record-bee.com
