MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies arrested a man last week after he crashed his van into a cement column outside the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Hammocks station and then threatened deputies and sergeants with a hammer, authorities said.
According to an arrest report obtained Monday by Local 10 News, the incident happened just after 7:40 p.m. last Friday at the station located at 10000 SW 142nd Ave.
Detectives said a deputy was working at the front desk when he heard a “loud crashing sound” outside.
The deputy looked through the glass windows and doors and noticed the station’s identification sign, made of aluminum and plexiglass, had toppled over and exposed live wires on the two metal anchors.
According to the report, two deputies and a sergeant rushed outside and saw a white van that had slammed into a cement column. The driver, Adrian Fontalvo, 30, of Miami, stood several feet away, gripping a hammer and giving the three law enforcement officers a “dehumanizing stare.”
Authorities said Fontalvo took “an aggressive/fighting stance,” prompting two officers to draw their guns and another deputy to pull out his Taser.
Deputies ordered Fontalvo to drop the hammer in both English and Spanish, but he refused, the report stated.
According to the report, two more sergeants arrived as backup and also drew their weapons.
Deputies said Fontalvo eventually lunged at them with the hammer raised above his head in an attacking motion, prompting two deputies to fire their Tasers. One Taser made contact, incapacitating Fontalvo.
Deputies then took Fontalvo into custody.
According to the report, they first transported him to Baptist Hospital in West Kendall before bringing him back to the Hammocks station, where he invoked his right to remain silent.
Deputies arrested him on charges of criminal mischief, attempted aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting an officer without violence.
As of Monday morning, Fontalvo no longer appeared in the online jail database.
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