PITTSBURGH — An Emlenton man who is running as the Green Party candidate for the 64th state House District was arrested Thursday afternoon in Pittsburgh, during a protest at the Duquesne Club.

Michael Bagdes-Canning, 63, was charged with resisting arrest, defiant trespass and disorderly conduct, after police say he went through the club's revolving door and prevented it from moving, trapping non-protestors inside. Police say Bagdes-Canning refused to move or come out of the door until officers removed and arrested him. Police said no one was hurt.

The incident occurred shortly after 12:15 p.m. Thursday, as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited the club to speak to members of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, during a fundraiser.

Bagdes-Canning, who has been a vocal opponent of shale gas drilling, called the Duquesne Club fundraiser “an exercise of corruption,” in an e-mail press release Friday, and said his target wasn't the real estate mogul.

“The fact that this was a Trump event was just a nice coincidence,” he said. “If this had been one of the high roller Clinton fundraisers, I'm pretty sure (I) would have gone in there too.”

According to online court documents a preliminary hearing on the charges is scheduled for 8 a.m. Oct. 5 before Allegheny County Court Judge Jeffrey A. Manning.