YACHATS – A Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy used a Taser to subdue and arrest a 30-year-old Waldport man Saturday morning after motorists on U.S. Highway 101 north of Yachats said he was throwing objects at passing cars and damaging them.
Christian R. McCain is in the county jail on two counts of first-degree criminal mischief and four counts of recklessly endangering another person. He was arraigned Tuesday, is being held on $50,000 bail and is next scheduled for a court hearing Jan. 24.
A sheriff’s deputy and Oregon State Police trooper were dispatched at 8:55 a.m. Saturday to Idaho Street north of Yachats after receiving calls of a man throwing metal rebar, 2-by-4s, rocks and other objects at passing cars and damaging them.
In a probable cause affidavit filed in Lincoln County circuit court, Deputy Garrett Brawdy said McCain refused to comply with commands and threatened the deputy as he tried to talk to him. After continuing to threaten the deputy, Brawdy said he used his Taser to incapacitate McCain, put him in handcuffs and arrest him.
South Lincoln Ambulance took McCain to Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital to remove the Taser probes and then he was taken to jail.
Court documents indicated there were at least two victims from Waldport and two from Yachats.
Brawdy said in his report that he was familiar with McCain from his work in Waldport and that he and others had received “multiple reports of a similar nature involving McCain as the suspect over the last couple of days.”
