A Salt Lake who intervened in a fight at a local casino is now in the Elko County Jail charged with one count of battery on a police officer.
According to police reports Wendover police were called to the Nugget Casino Friday night regarding an unidentified Salt lake man who had been fighting with employees. When they arrived they found the unidentified man held down by casino staff and the man was still described as “combative”
While police were taking the man into custody his family arrived and explained that their relative was off his medication. One of the relatives, Fuofua Nua explained a little too forcefully.
According to reports Nua began fighting with police who eventually tasered the 24 year old Salt Lake City man. An ambulance was called for the officers, Nua and for his relative who started the fracas earlier.
After being treated for the tasing Nua was transported to the Elko county jail and booked on a $2,500 bond for assaulting a police officer. His relative was taken by ambulance to a Salt Lake area hospital for treatment and observation. His name is being withheld pending a decision for the Elko District Attorney on whether to press charges.
