A call to a South Farmerville Street convenience store last week led to the arrest of a convicted felon in possession of a firearm but only after a Taser was applied several times to take him into custody.
Ruston Police arrested Anthony Donnell Jackson, 48, of Ruston, on April 17 after a call to the scene regarding an intoxicated man.
Officers found Jackson on the ground in the parking lot with several other men standing around him. Jackson walked away from police heading back toward the store, ignoring an officer’s repeated commands to stop. Jackson opened the store’s front door and attempted to quickly close it but an officer deployed a Taser.
Officers tried to restrain Jackson but he resisted, leading an officer to deploy a Taser twice. Jackson continued to resist and refused to place his hands behind his back.
Once Jackson was taken into custody, a Taurus .38 Special revolver on the floor under a table. Review of surveillance video showed the handgun fell out of Jackson’s pants during the arrest. A check revealed Jackson was a convicted felon prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Just under five grams of marijuana were found in Jackson’s pants pocket when he was searched.
Jackson was booked into the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, resisting an officer by force or violence, resisting an officer by refusal to identify, disturbing the peace by intoxicated in public, and possession of marijuana, and a warrant for failure to appear in Ruston City Court on a criminal trespass case.
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