Hiding behind a door and swallowing a “handful of pills” didn’t stop a 28-year-old Joy Street man from being arrested on Valentine’s Day.
Antonio Joseph Lucio, 28, is charged with firing his shotgun during a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.
According to reports from Oakland County Sheriff Deputies, no one was injured by the shotgun blasts even though rounds from the gun blew through Lucio’s trailer and into the neighboring mobile home. At home at the time were a 35-year-old woman, her 15-year-old daughter and her daughter’s 18-year-old boyfriend.
Lucio, a resident of the Clintonville Mobile Home Park was engaged in a fight with his 25-year-old girlfriend, while their two-year-old daughter lay asleep on the living room couch. Deputies state Luci fired the gun from his bedroom. The neighboring home had multiple shotgun pellet holes through the exterior wall and kitchen window. Numerous shotgun pellets were found lying on the kitchen floor and countertops.
Luci is out on a $40,000 cash bond waiting for a February 25 court date. On Feb. 14, he was arrainged before 52-2 District Court Judge Dana Fortinberry for discharge of a firearm in or at a building, felon in the possession of a firearm, and two counts of the use of a firearm in commission or a felony.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they report Lucio did not comply and ran and hid behind a bedroom door. When they ordered Lucio to the ground, he would not hurriedly chewed a handful of pills. Deputies were forced to take Lucio to the ground where they placed him in handcuffs.
He was then transported for medical attention due to the pills swallowed.