WINONA, Minn. – Police tasered a man who resisted arrest on a warrant for violating a court order to stay away from a protected person. Why did Anthony Martin Arreola, age 37, so vigorously resist arrest that police decided to use a stun gun? Drugs may have been the reason. When finally arrested, police said, Arreola had drugs in his possession. He also was charged with obstructing justice. This was about 11:40 p.m. on Wabasha Street. The incident began when an officer on patrol recognized Arreola and announced he was under arrest. Arreola backed away, then pulled away, then cinched up his pants and assumed an attack posture, police said. He pushed off a second officer and swatted at him. The second officer tasered Arreola twice but to no effect. The second officer tackled Arreola at the waist, which brought him down to be handcuffed. On his person police said they found a syringe with 0.2 grams of meth. Arreola wasn’t injured in the melee. One officer suffered minor face scratches when he and Arreloa crashed into a fence.
Arreola. Tased twice and tackled before police got cuffs on him.