Off The Beat: Impeding funeral procession is no way to live in Fort Pierce

FORT PIERCE — A man accused of threatening to fight police and walking in traffic during a funeral procession got locked up, an affidavit states.

The case began about 8:48 p.m. Dec. 13 when Fort Pierce police went to an address in the 500 block of North 13th Street for an “unwelcome person.”

A store manager reported a 44-year-old man entered his establishment, causing a ruckus and “making loud noise.” The store manager said the man refused to leave.

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Police, describing the man as “highly intoxicated,” told him not to come back to the store.

About 30 minutes later, police returned to the store and repeatedly told the man to vacate the premises. The man went to a nearby corner and “was yelling at us about getting a bicycle and fighting him,” the affidavit states.

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Told by police to stop yelling and leave, the man “walked across the street but was yelling he would beat us up,” the affidavit states.

Fights with police generally do not end well.

Investigators said he went in the street and stopped oncoming traffic.

St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputies drove through with a funeral procession, and the man went in front of a deputy’s vehicle.

Police arrested the man, whose listed address is on North 12th Street in Fort Pierce, on a charge of disorderly intoxicationge.

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