An Inverness man was arrested Saturday after breaking into his neighbors' house and threatening them, shocking himself by sticking his fingers into a lamp socket, threatening a deputy with a metal rod, running naked through his yard and chewing through a cable in a patrol car, authorities said.
| "Awright! Spit out the cable, put yer doinker away, and come out witcher hands up!" |
Authorities arrested Shyne Harris Phelps, 39, of 2510 Jupiter St., at 1:45 a.m., on charges of kidnapping, burglary of a dwelling, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with intent to commit a felony, resisting an officer with violence, battery and criminal mischief, an arrest report said.
| ... also disorderly conduct, jaywalking, lewd and unusual behavior, disturbing the peace, sedition, misappropriation of ladies' underwear, barratry and maintenance... |
Deputies were called to a home on East Dawson Drive, just behind Beall's, at 1:35 a.m. after getting a call of a burglary in progress.
| "Help! Police! There's a naked man putting his tongue in my socket!" |
On arrival, Deputy Lynn Tabb saw several people standing in the yard, pointing and yelling. Then he heard something hit the rear passenger side of the patrol car. When Tabb turned, he saw a man holding a metal rod and wearing only a sheet wrapped around his waist, a report said.
| "Hrarrr! Wanna see what's under me sheet?" |
He was yelling that he was "ready to go to jail."
| "Yeah! Lock me up! I'm a danger to myself and those around me and some folks not around me!" |
Tabb got out of his car and ordered the man to drop the rod.
| "Somebody screamed. It was a woman. She sounded hysterical, three octaves higher than normal women. I looked around, and there was a man holding a rod. A big man. An ugly man. In a sheet. It was a dirty sheet. The rod was big, too, but it wasn't a rosco. 'Drop yer rod, Beauzeau!' I said." |
He did, but quickly picked it up again and made a threatening gesture. Tabb pulled his own rod gun.
| "Stick 'em up, Beauzeau!" |
The man dropped the rod but shouted that he was "ready to die" and took off running.
| "I'm ready to die! No. I'm almost ready to die! Feet, don't fail me now!" |
The man tried to scale a chain-link fence to get back to his home on the adjoining property.
| "Harrr! I'll go back next door! They'll never look for me there!" |
The deputy fired a Taser at him, but it didn't connect. The man threw dirt and rocks in the deputy's face, the report said.
| "Hey! You're fightin' dirty, Beauzeau!" |
The suspect made it over the fence, losing his sheet in the process and sprinted, naked, into his home, the report said.
| "Cheeks, don't fail me now!... Hahah! I made it home! They'll never find me here!..." |
Neighbors told Tabb that the man had several guns in the house, but the suspect soon came out of the house and was arrested without further incident.
"Hrarrr! I got several guns in the house, but no ammunition! Where's the hell's the ammunition!... Mom! Have you seen my ammunition?"
"Come out witcher hands up, Beauzeau!"
"Hokay." |
Four people told deputies that the man came into their home after the family called the Sheriff's Office to complain about noise at Phelps' house. The man came in through the back door, they said, and grabbed them and shouted, "It is time for you to die."
As he tried to force one of the family members out of the home, one of the victims shot him with a Taser.
| "Ow! Hey! What'd yez do dat for?" |
That just caused the intruder to demand to be shocked some more.
| "More! More! Gimme more juice!" |
He grabbed a lamp, unscrewed the bulb and stuck his fingers in, shocking himself and yelling.
| "Yipes! Yow!... Hey, y'all! Watch what happens when I stick my tongue in it!... Wow!" |
After Phelps was arrested, deputies say he damaged the patrol car by biting through a cable cord in the back seat.
| "I told you to stop chewing that, Beauzeau! Now, spit it out, or no bail hearing!" |
Phelps was taken to Citrus Memorial Hospital and then booked into the county jail. He was held without bail. |