Three off-duty Allegheny County sheriff’s deputies are being credited with subduing and detaining a man who authorities said was drunk when he flailed a knife inside a woman’s car Sunday at an Ohio convenience store.
Deputies Michael Frost, Sean Green and Randy Roberts, along with their significant others, were on their way home from the Cincinnati Jazz Fest and had stopped at a store in Sharonville, Ohio, about 13 miles north of Cincinnati, according to a release from the sheriff’s office.
Frost and Green went inside the store, and Roberts remained in the vehicle and noticed a woman screaming in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked nearby. A man in the vehicle was flailing a knife, the sheriff’s office said.
Roberts approached the man and identified himself as a law enforcement officer, the sheriff’s office said.
The heavily intoxicated man was disarmed by Roberts, and Frost and Green helped detain the man while the deputies called 911 and waited for local police to arrive, according to the sheriff’s office.
“I thought they did an excellent job. They’re to be commended for their actions,” said Allegheny County Chief Deputy Kevin Kraus.
The woman told the deputies they were fighting about whether he should buy more alcohol due his level of intoxication.
Sharonville police charged the man was charged with simple assault and inducing panic by Sharonville police, the sheriff’s office said.
