Cliff Buchan
News Editor

It was a bloody mess that greeted Forest Lake police ó literally and physically ó who were called to a domestic at 6:15 a.m. on Nov. 1.

Officers here were called to a townhome at 6354 N. 207th St. after neighbors reported hearing people screaming, glass breaking and loud noises coming from the home.

In all, four Forest Lake officers, an officer from Wyoming and a deputy from Washington County found a bloody mess and one high uncooperative man at the scene.

Police Sgt. Ron Hanegraaf said officers encountered a naked male who was covered in blood and had several severe lacerations on his body. Blood was also found on the walls, police said, and the man ran uncontrolled from room to room in the lower level of the home.

The man refused repeated police commands to calm down and cooperate and when he lunged at an officer he was hit with a taser gun. The man was tasered three additional times before he could be restrained.

Police placed Dillon Howard Cundy, 20, under arrest and sent him to Regions Hospital, St. Paul, for treatment of injuries related to an apparent attempt to jump through a bedroom window, police said.

Cundy, who police said had recently been released from jail, now faces formal charges of fourth-degree assault of a police officer and obstruction of legal process with force. In April of this year, Cundy was arrested here on a driving while intoxicated charge and released to Ramsey County on two warrants for detention for driving after revocation.

A second man was taken into custody for probable cause possession of a controlled substance, police said.

Dennis John Swearingen, 22, who lived with Cundy at 6354 N. 207th St., did not resist arrest at the scene, but became disruptive at the Forest Lake Police Station when officers attempted to place him in a holding cell, police said.

Hanegraaf said Swearingen fought with officers at the time of the lock-up and one Forest Lake officer injured a shoulder during the scuffle.

He was the second officer to be hurt in the incident. A Forest Lake officer suffered a wrist injury while dealing with Cundy at the home, police said.

Swearingen was taken to the Washington County Jail in Stillwater where he was held on probable cause of fourth-degree assault of a police officer, obstruction of legal process with force and fourth-degree possession of a controlled substance.

Hanegraaf said police recovered a substance at the home that tested positive for cocaine.

Two other officers also went to Fairview Regional Medical Center in Wyoming where they received precautionary blood tests after their clothes became contaminated by blood at the scene of the domestic, Hanegraaf said.

A third roommate at the rented townhome was not involved in the early-morning incident, police said.

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