MISHAWAKA Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 A Texas man is behind bars after barricading himself in a Mishawaka hotel on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Mishawaka police responded to a call about an unwanted individual at the Country Inn & Suites on University Drive around 5:30 p.m. <\/p>\n
The 56-year-old man from Copperas Cove, Texas, had checked into the hotel on Friday and had made the female desk clerk uncomfortable with his aggressive physical and verbal behavior. <\/p>\n
He also reportedly made inappropriate comments to a female child.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived to remove him from the hotel at the request of management, he barricaded himself in his room. <\/p>\n
After more than an hour, he was taken into custody after chemical agents were deployed and a Taser was used. <\/p>\n
The man was then transported to the hospital for medical clearance before being taken to jail.<\/p>\n
He faces charges of Criminal Trespass, Battery to a Law Enforcement Officer, and Resisting Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISHAWAKA Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 A Texas man is behind bars after barricading himself in a Mishawaka hotel on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-455791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}