A call of a naked man on the highway took a chilling twist when sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene.
“Got a call of a naked man on I-10, dispatchers dispatch a deputy out there. When he got there, the guy was naked,” Hancock County, Mississippi Sheriff Ricky Adam tells WLOX.
“So he approaches him, he was talking to him, as they were talking he and the suspect get into a wrestling match.”
The man, police say, was 32-year-old Safa Alidoust, an Iranian national.
Alidoust was standing next to his car on the highway, when a sheriff’s deputy pulled up to offer assistance. His clothes were reportedly in the car.
“The guy starts yelling in Arabic and rushed the deputy, and knocked him to the ground,” Deputy Don Bass says, according to the Clarion-Ledger. “Then the man was choking the deputy on the ground.”
The deputy attempting to detain Alidoust was injured when his head hit the ground. When dispatchers were unable to reach him, they sent backup.
As the two officers detained the suspect, “he was still yelling in Arabic and says, ‘There’s a bomb in my car,’” Bass said, according to the paper.
A portion of I-10 near the Mississippi-Louisiana state line was shut down for more than two hours while a bomb squad combed through “a couple packages” in the vehicle.
No explosives were reportedly found, but Sheriff Adam wanted to take the situation seriously anyway.
“And works for an oil company over there, a petroleum company. The Iranian was then sent to the hospital, and at the hospital he’s still threatening to kill anyone who isn’t a member of Islam or Muslim. When we have somebody that’s making these threats, we know he’s Iranian, we know he’s a Muslim, and regardless what anybody says, dammit, they’ve killed people. So we have to take it seriously and we are,” he says.
The sheriff told the media Alidoust said he was naked because he’s required to pray that way.
“If that’s what they believe I can care less. They can do it. just don’t do it on the interstate,” according to Adam.
The Clarion-Ledger reports Alidoust is “a drilling technology instructor” at Intertek Consulting & Training in Lafayette, Louisiana.
He’s working on a masters degree in Petroleum Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
“Alidoust was charged with false reporting of an explosive device associated with terrorist threats and two counts of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer,” the paper reports.
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