GENOA, Ohio -- A man faces multiple misdemeanor charges for allegedly threatening to kill and eat a police dog after officers responded to a report that he refused to leave an area bar.
Nathan Young, 30, of Genoa, was charged with two counts of aggravated menacing, one count of harassing a police dog and one count of criminal trespass, all misdemeanors.
Around 1 a.m. Sunday, Ottawa County Sheriff’s Deputy Marc Nye was dispatched to Bharmacy, 621 Main St., Genoa, after the owner reported Young refused to leave despite being told several times that he is not allowed there. The caller reported that Young just stood at the front entrance to the bar.
Young moved before police arrived, but the owner said he wanted to press trespassing charges.
Officers found Young on steps at the back of the bar and asked him to step down, at which point Young began yelling, according to the incident report.
Young reportedly said he did not care what the officers were going to do and that he had been “dealing with the police for the last 40 years.”
When asked to remove his hands from the pockets of his sweatshirt and if he had any weapons, Young threw his wallet and keys to the ground. Nye used the opportunity to gain control of Young’s arms and begin patting him down before cuffing him and placing him under arrest on a charge of criminal trespassing.
Nye said Young continued to yell and struggle as they walked to the cruiser at the front of the bar. When the cruiser door was opened, Nye’s K-9 partner, Nero, could be heard barking.
“I’m going to kill that (expletive) dog,” Young said, according to the report.
After Young was placed in the back of the cruiser, he began to scream and pound on the partition between where he was sitting and the K-9 kennel, the report said.
Nye said he informed Young that harassing a police dog was a crime and told him to stop multiple times, but Young continued pounding on the partition the entire drive to the jail and made threats toward Nye and Nero.
“Nathan stated that he was going to hang Nero, cut him open and eat him in front of me,” Nye said in his report.
Young continued to scream and threaten other deputies as he was booked at the Ottawa County Detention Facility, deputies reported.
