Crime & Safety

Man Shouts Obscenities, Racial Slurs at Twinsburg Police During Arrest

The following information was provided by the Twinsburg Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction

One man didn't care what he said to police and surrounding people during an arrest for disorderly conduct on Sept. 25 at .

Raymond Opatka, 57, of Macedonia, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after trying to drive home from the bar while he was drunk.

According to the police report, an employee called police because Opatka was heavily intoxicated and trying to leave. When police got there, he was "staggering around" and "yelling at other patrons."

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When officers tried to bring Opatka toward them, he shouted obscenities at them. As officers forced him to the ground to handcuff him, he struggled with them, keeping his other hand under his body.

As he was put into a patrol car, police said Opatka started yelling racial slurs at the patrons and complaining about the one who took him to the ground, using another racial slur.

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