WINONA, Minn. – Police jailed a Wisconsin motorist after a tough arrest in an East Side residential neighborhood about 3:25 a.m. Marcel Antonio Myles. 30, of Fond du Lac, was booked for attempting to flee an officer, obstructing officers, drunken driving and, oh yes, what triggered the arrest in the first place – an outdated folded-over license plate on his car. Myles had been stopped by a lone officer in the 400 block of East Fifth Street. The officer gave this account of what happened next:
> Myles got out of his car and walked away.
> Ordered to halt, Myles did, but he refused to walk back to the squad car.
> The officer approached Myles, whose eyes, he said, were bloodshot, and who was unsteady and reeked of alcohol.
> The officer informed Myles that he was under arrest and placed him in what police manuals call “an escort position.”
> When the officer tried hand-cuffing, Myles refused. The officer said he repeated the order four times. Myles kept telling the officer to cuff him in front.
> Knowing that front-cuffing would be a safety issue, the officer tried a straight-arm take-down of Myles, but it didn’t work.
> A second officer arrived, and Myles was cuffed – finally with his hands behind his back.
> Myles refused field sobriety tests.
> At the jailhouse, Myles refused to be tested for his blood-alcohol content.
> At 4:39 a.m., more an hour after the traffic stop, Myles was behind bars at the county jail. In his paperwork on the arrest the officer called Myles “uncooperative.”
Myles. Didn’t like how the cops tried cuffing him. Didn’t prevail.