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by Nick Penzenstadler
Monday, March 10, 2008
Madison police officers detained and dragged a heavily intoxicated middle-aged male from Starbucks at 661 State St. Sunday evening after he harassed several customers.
Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Starbucks employees made attempts to escort the drunken man from the coffee shop.
They then called the police to have him arrested.
University of Wisconsin senior Mohammad Alfarouqi was studying near the incident.
“He wouldn’t leave some girls alone,” Alfarouqi said. “He just got up in their face and the Starbucks guy tried to kick him out, and then he tried to grab him and that’s when the police came.”
Junior Khalid Al-Ibrahim, who was also nearby, said police officers struggled to get a hold of the man and took out a Taser but never administered a shock.
An MPD patrolman was quick to the scene but called for assistance to help control the man, according to Al-Ibrahim.
“He couldn’t even walk,” Al-Ibrahim said of the drunken man.
The man struggled with officers while being escorted to a squad car where officers searched him. Since he never struck an officer, patrolman Alexander Berkovitz said he likely would not be charged with resisting arrest or disorderly conduct.
“It’s just an intoxicated person getting a trespass ticket and an open intoxication violation,” Berkovitz said. “He’ll also be going to detox.”
Police found a half-empty plastic bottle of vodka in the man’s pocket when they searched him.
Two officers struggled with the man as he cursed and writhed before being forced into the squad car and taken away.
Anonymous (March 10, 2008 @ 4:42am):
Totally inaccurate article - I'm not "middle-aged".
- Germain Q. Stemme
Anonymous (March 10, 2008 @ 6:42am):
UW grad I am sure...
Anonymous (March 10, 2008 @ 11:33am):
Why is this news? I had to escort drunks out of the coffee place I worked at at least once a week? Was starbucks immune from this until now?
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