Use a Shovel, Get Tasered
GOLETA – Robert Tyson Martin, 47, was so upset with his wife by 8:00 a.m. on December 11th, that he took a shovel in hand and began smashing in the windows of her residence. According to Santa Barbara County Sheriff spokesman Lt. Butch Arnoldi, Martin used the shovel to “destroy the front door of the house” as well.
Robert Tyson Martin
SBSD deputies, responding to a 911 Emergency call, arrived at the house where Martin had already gained entry and is suspected to have physically assaulted his wife just as he was getting in his car and preparing to drive away. As he pulled his vehicle toward the street, deputies attempted to make a traffic stop but “he pulled back into his driveway, exited his vehicle, and charged deputies,” Arnoldi reported, in an apparent attempt to commit “suicide by cop”.
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At that point, deputies deployed Tasers and brought Martin to the ground where he was subdued and taken into custody.
According to Arnoldi’s background report, Martin had recently been released from a Los Angeles drug rehab program. Martin was arrested and booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on charges of inflicting injury upon a spouse, felony vandalism, obstructing and resisting a police officer, failure to yield, dissuading a witness, and possession of an illegal weapon (presumably a shovel), with his bail set at $100,000.
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