A man believed to be positive for Hepatitis C has been charged with exposing two county officers to HBV following an arrest last week for driving under the influence after a car crash.
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32 year old Brandon Lynn Tallent of West Broad Street, Smithville allegedly spat at one of the officers and threw an unknown liquid from a cup in the face of the other. He has told authorities before that he is Hepatitis C positive.
Tallent is charged with driving under the influence; resisting stop, frisk, halt, arrest (2 counts); criminal exposure of another to HBV (2 counts); and assault. He is also cited for failing to give immediate notice of an accident, driving on highways laned for travel, violation of financial responsibility, and violation of implied consent.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Tuesday, January 31 Tallent went to the home of his grandmother on Big Rock Road and told her he had a wreck on McGinnis Road. She then reported it. “A deputy arrived and noticed that Tallent was intoxicated. He asked Tallent to do a field sobriety test but Tallent refused. The officer then placed Tallent under arrest and brought him back to the jail in order to obtain a search warrant for a blood withdrawal. While he was here at the jail, Tallent took a cup of an unknown liquid and threw it in the face of a correctional officer. Tallent was then taken to the hospital for the blood withdrawal. While there, Tallent spat on one of the detectives,” said Sheriff Ray.
Reading from the arrest warrants, Sheriff Ray explained how the incident unfolded. “On Tuesday, January 31 a deputy was called to a residence on Big Rock Road. The caller, Tallent’s grandmother said that Tallent was in the front yard crying and acting “awful”. Tallent told the deputy that he had just wrecked his vehicle down the road (McGinnis Road) and asked the officer to take him back there to look at it. The deputy noticed that Tallent was very unsteady on his feet and that his speech was slurred. After the officer took Tallent back to the crash site, he asked him (Tallent) to submit to field sobriety tasks but he refused. Tallent was then taken into custody and a search warrant for a blood withdrawal was obtained. While in a holding cell at the jail, Tallent resisted arrest by “pulling and jerking” as correctional officers were trying to handcuff him during an altercation there. According to Sheriff Ray, as the correctional officers were preparing for Tallent’s transport to the hospital for the blood draw, Tallent grabbed a cup containing an unknown liquid and threw it in the face of a correctional officer. After being taken to the emergency room of the hospital Tallent became irate. “He was pulling and jerking his hands away forcibly and had to be restrained. He did spit at a detective from the sheriff’s department. Tallent has revealed in the past that he is Hepatitis C positive,” said Sheriff Ray.
Tallent’s bond on these charges totals $16,500 but he is being held without bond for a violation of parole. His court date on the charges is February 16.
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