GRANTS, NM – Grants man Bevis John was arrested on May 11 for assault and battery. According to a police report, police were called to John’s sister’s house because of an alleged fight. After a physical confrontation with police led to a taser being used on John three times, he was subdued and cleared for booking. John was arrested for assault and battery, and drunk and disorderly, he was released only hours later and was arrested again on the next day on another charge of drunk and disorderly. While John was arrested, all suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and charges are only an allegation of wrongdoing.
Two Grants Police Department officers arrived at the alleged scene of the fight around 3:30 p.m., where they were contacted by John’s sister. The sister told police she believed her brother, whom she identified as John, was inside her house. After speaking with John’s sister, officers went inside the house to check for intruders and clear the room of weapons. According to the police report, officers were going in with information that John did not look like himself and were prepared that he could be intoxicated.
Officers opened the front door of the house began to clear rooms. According to the report, officers found the house trashed with broken glass and household items thrown across the floor in each room. Officers came to the final room and opened the door, inside they found John with bottles and cans of beer around him. The report states that John was slurring his speech and was struggling to stand up on his own, as he rose from the floor, John took a combative stance. Officers moved to put John in handcuffs when he allegedly began to struggle and leave the room, he continued struggling with officers, obstructing their attempts to detain him. Police deployed a taser to stop John from struggling, he fell to the floor but when police moved to arrest him he stood back up and continued struggling. Officers deployed another taser which had no effect as John allegedly pulled the probes out of skin, unphased.
Backup arrived on scene and began to assist the two officers, with one final taser deployment, despite his alleged attempts to pull the prongs out of his skin, he went down and was placed under arrest. Officers called for medical support to check on John and began to document the scene when John’s brother showed up and spoke with officers.
John’s brother had visible scratch and bruise on his arm which he showed officers while telling them that the brothers fought each other in their sister’s house, and that John “Didn’t look like himself.”
Emergency Medical Services helped remove the remaining prongs from John’s skin and cleared him for transport to Cibola General Hospital. At CGH, a spit mask was placed on John and he was cleared for incarceration at Cibola County Correctional Center.
GPD transported John to Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, N.M., and were made to wait as the facility would not allow officers to take John in through the sallyport, and that he would have to be walked in. Officers informed CCCC that they would need help making him go in, as he was still combative, after a few minutes, CCCC allowed officers to take John into the facility with assistance waiting for him. John was booked and taken to a cell.
By the May 12, the next day, John was out of jail where he was returned after being arrested on another charge of drunk and disorderly by GPD.
All people are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, charges are merely an allegation.