Sunday, February 9, 2014

Orlando (Florida) Sentinel – “Naked attacker arrested after bizarre incident in suburban Lake Worth” – Feb. 9th, 2014:

In a melee that lasted at least 10 minutes, a squad of deputies used batons, a police dog, a stun gun and all their might to subdue a male they said walked into a neighbor's house on Saturday and stripped off his clothes before attacking a teenager.
The incident marks the second time in less than a week that Palm Beach Sheriff's Office deputies have confronted a naked person who seemed to be on a violent rampage while displaying unusual physical strength.

The latest outbreak of violence began about 6 p.m. Saturday when police said they responded to reports of a burglary in the 9200 block of Bracelet Drive in unincorporated Lake Worth. A 15-year-old boy told two arriving officers that he was feeding the dogs at his aunt's house when Hopper walked through the unlocked front door.

Hopper touched the teen's face, the teen told deputies, and tried to remove the teen's glasses. Hopper then took all his clothes off while shouting nonsense, deputies said.
Jason Valentine, 35, the brother of the homeowner, said the teenager fled into the backyard, where he used a trampoline to elude Hopper by jumping over a fence and running for home a block away.

An arriving deputy said he could see Hopper "walking around completely naked inside of the residence in a menacing manner."

"He was breaking random things inside the house and still shouting nonsensical things such as, '5,6,7,8, grandma, girlfriend,1,2,3,4,'" the deputy wrote. "Conrad was moving erratically around the kitchen with clinched fists and pacing aimlessly."

When he came out the back door, armed with the clock, Hopper took a defensive stance, deputies said. Hopper refused to obey orders, so a deputy released the dog.
"Conrad immediately began to punch the dog's head with closed fists and attempted to gouge out the dog's eyes," deputies wrote.

Two more officers arrived. Hopper was hit with a baton and officers triggered a dart-firing stun gun, which knocked Hopper down, they said.
He was finally fitted with steel cuffs, but it "did not change Conrad's temperament as he continued to kick at deputies and thrash around violently," deputies reported.

"At one point Conrad was able to free himself from one of the handcuffs and continued to punch and thrash around," deputies said.
Officers put Hopper in a hobble leg restraint, but even then he got one hand free and "continued to punch and thrash around," the report stated.

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