Police use their Tasers to subdue naked man
It sounds like one bad trip, man.
Allegedly naked and on acid, 21-year-old Noah P. Bowen is accused of jumping through a window at his trailer home in Muddy Creek Township and attacking a woman before state police Tasered him three times early Wednesday morning.
Bowen was arrested and later taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for medical treatment. He admitted he was high on acid, marijuana and alcohol, police said, and told troopers “he was unaware of what he had done.”
He is in the Butler County Prison on several charges.
Police got the call for a naked man shortly before 5 a.m. at the Lake Arthur Estates trailer park. They spoke to a woman, who recounted driving Bowen home from a friend's house “while he was intoxicated on acid,” police said.
She told troopers the defendant jumped through the window of his trailer, sustaining “many cuts” in the process. He tackled her in the street, the woman said, and punched her several times in the head and body. She had minor injuries.
She provided police with one more piece of information. Bowen, in his getaway, allegedly ran away naked.
Four troopers searched the area for the suspect. Around 6:30 a.m., police said, Trooper Casey Fuller heard a woman scream. A dispatcher informed the trooper that Bowen had been seen at another home in the trailer park, and he was pounding on the side of it.
Fuller got there and described seeing the defendant “completely nude and covered in blood with multiple lacerations on his body, face and extremities.”
Eventually, police said, the other troopers surrounded him. He began to approach one of the officers. He was told to stop, but didn't. Another trooper deployed his Taser, hitting Bowen, but it apparently had no effect.
He allegedly charged at police and a second trooper deployed his Taser, again hitting the suspect, which had no effect.
A third trooper deployed his Taser. This time, police said, Bowen fell to the ground.
District Judge Bill O'Donnell arraigned Bowen on two counts of simple assault, indecent exposure, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, loitering and prowling at night, harassment and public drunkenness.
He was placed in the county prison on $25,000 bond. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 10. Online court records did not indicate if he has an attorney.
