A twenty-seven-year-old man staying at the Summerville Motel in Gore got into an altercation with sheriff’s deputies around 3 AM last Wednesday morning.  The subject, identified as Steven Henry Brown, called 911 saying he was being hypnotized. 

When deputies arrived at the motel, Brown was gone from the scene.  About that time, a call came from the High-Tech Gas Station where an employee at the gas station told dispatchers that a “man dressed like a woman was walking around the lot” looking in parked cars.

Deputies made contact with Brown who was standing in the turn lane of John Jones Road.  Brown told deputies he was with the CIA.  Deputies quickly determined Brown was under the influence of drugs.  When deputies attempted to do a field sobriety test, they say that Brown took a “fighting stance”.  This lead to deputies deploying a taser on Brown, and eventually pepper spray.  As the struggle ensued and one deputy was kicked in the chest and punched.  Brown sustained a laceration over his eye during the altercation.

Deputies say Brown was in possession of methamphetamine and a switchblade knife.

Brown was charged with both misdemeanor and felony obstruction of officers, possession of a knife during the commission of a crime, possession of drug related objects,