Police officers in Wayne County on Sunday responded to a public disturbance that escalated into violence.

Deputies with the Wayne County Sheriff’s office and Monticello Police officers were dispatched just after 9 p.m. Sunday night to Elk Street on a complaint of a man harassing motorists driving on the street, who were attempting to cross a bridge.

When law enforcement arrived on scene, they discovered that 19-year-old Dakota Sullivan of Monticello was laying in the creek drunk after he fell off the bridge.

According to police, Sullivan attempted to run away from police while they were waiting for EMTs to arrive. Sullivan tried to fight police when officers attempted to handcuff him.

He also made death threats towards officers while he was trying to fight them. Sullivan was tazed and placed into custody.

Sullivan is charged with three counts of wanton endangerment of a police officer, public intoxication, resisting arrest, menacing and terroristic threatening. He was lodged in the Wayne County Detention Center.