Last Call: Drinkers Learn Why Not to Pick Fights with the Police

Two separate incidents during the past week should serve as lessons: Don’t pick fights with law enforcement.

Sterling

A restaurant employee asked a man to leave a restaurant in the Regal Plaza shopping center along Route 7 just after 1:30 a.m. Dec. 15, according to a Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office report. Once outside, the man threw a cigarette in the direction of an LCSO deputy and made disparaging remarks, according to the report.

When the man continued to argue with people at the restaurant and attempted to go back inside, the deputy attempted to place him under arrest. The man resisted being taken into custody, resulting in a struggle with the officer.

Jean-Paul Matarazzo, 29, of Leesburg, was charged with resisting arrest, drunk in public, possession of marijuana and littering.

Ashburn Village

Just after 1 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Ashburn Village shopping center, deputies were called to a restaurant for reports of disorderly conduct.

Deputies entered the establishment and attempted to take a man into custody when a second man jumped in and refused to obey officers’ commands, according to an LCSO report.

When a deputy attempted to take the second man, who continued to be combative, into custody, he attempted to flee, according to the report.

La’Mar D. Haynie, 24, of Woodbridge, VA, was arrested and charged with assault on law enforcement, obstruction of justice and drunk in public. Tanner S. Feil, 30, of Fairfax, was charged with drunk in public and obstruction of justice. Two other unidentified men were charge with drunk in public.