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(KAIR)--A Mayetta man is jailed in Jackson County, accused of setting a fire, fleeing from authorities, and threatening a Deputy with a knife.
According to a release from Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse, the arrest of 35-year-old Jeffery Harris came only after a taser was used to bring him into custody.
Harris faces charges for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, criminal use of a weapon, criminal threat, arson, burglary, felony criminal damage to property, felony interference with law enforcement, reckless driving, and transporting an open container.
According to Morse, the charges follow a late Monday morning phone call reporting a building on fire at 211 N. 4th Street, in Mayetta, with it believed that a man started the fire, then cut the hose the structure's owner was using to extinguish the flames.
Harris allegedly then fled the scene, with the car he was driving spotted near 190th Road and U.S. Highway 75, by a Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy. Harris then allegedly slammed on the brakes of his car, and when he exited, was allegedly holding a long knife in his hand as he moved toward the Deputy. That- when the taser was deployed, allowing for Harris to be taken into custody.
Following his arrest, he was booked into the Jackson County Jail.
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