GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Kaukauna man is jailed on charges that he bit a Green Bay police officer while being arrested for his sixth OWI.
44-year-old David A. Fletcher is charged with 4 counts, felony battery to law enforcement officer, 6th offense OWI with general alcohol concentration enhancer, and two misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer.
According to the criminal complaint, Green Bay police were investigating a crash at S. Ashland Avenue and W. Walnut Street around 11:30 p.m. on July 1.
An officer was told by a witness that a drunk man just arrived at the Blackstone Restaurant. The man apparently just pulled in and was walking across the parking lot.
Officers say he was, “stumbling and not able to walk in a straight line.” The cops tried ordering him to stop, but the man ignored those commands.
That man, identified as David A. Fletcher, began to run southbound on W. Walnut Street. One of the officers caught up to Fletcher, wrapped his right arm around the right side of his body across his chest and took Fletcher to the ground.
Fletcher landed face down with one of the cops across his back, while the other officer’s right arm still caught underneath Fletcher. At that time, the officer whose arm was pinned under Fletcher felt a sharp pain in his right wrist and saw the suspect biting his wrist. It took, “two focus strikes with his left hand to the defendant’s face and mouth in an attempt to break his hand away.”
The complaint states that the injured officer saw blood on his right wrist and went to the hospital to have it checked out.
A witness told police that, “This guy (Fletcher) is trying to drive and he’s way too drunk.”
Fletcher was put into a squad car, where officers say it appeared he either passed out or was sleeping. During the transport to the hospital, officers say Fletcher, “attempted to slip the handcuffs around the front of him, but his hands got stuck behind his legs.”
At the hospital, police say Fletcher refused to take part in the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test and provide a breath test sample. Now inside the OWI processing room, Fletcher said many times that he, “Is a law student at Marquette University and degraded officers’ police education.” He also blurted out, “I’m being arrested for pulling into a breakfast spot…for scrambled eggs.”
Around 1:30 a.m. on July 2, a lab assistant arrived and Fletcher refused to provide a blood sample. One officer asked Fletcher if there was anything he could say or do to get him to cooperate and Fletcher allegedly replied, “No,” saying that officers, “Would have to pick him up.”
So officers moved Fletcher to a cot and placed on his stomach. The blood draw was completed and then Fletcher was taken to the Brown County Jail. He’s currently being held on $15,000 bond.
Fletcher was previously convicted of OWI five times dating back to 1998. If convicted of all charges, Fletcher faces more than 13 years in prison.
