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September 12, 2012

Drunken man arrested after latest Union St. incident

BY ART BUKOWSKI abukowski@record-eagle.com

TRAVERSE CITY — A Traverse City man who barged into a local restaurant’s cooking area, pushed a server and then tussled with police who intervened earned himself criminal charges.

Brian Douglas Adcox, 45, is charged with attempted assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer and drunk and disorderly conduct. He hadn’t yet been arraigned on the charges Wednesday.

City police said Adcox, who they said was drunk, went into House of Doggs on Union Street on Tuesday about 6 p.m. He walked behind the counter and told a female employee to “open her mouth.” When another female employee put her hand on his arm, he pushed her, police said.

He struggled with officers who arrived on scene and received a cut above his eye from his glasses.

The incident is the latest in a recent list of problems on the 100 block of Union Street, though the rest have been in the middle of the night.

“This incident is troubling ... because it’s at six o’clock,” Traverse City Police Capt. Brian Heffner said.

Adcox arrived at nearby Mode’s Bum Steer on State Street not long before the House of Doggs incident. Employees there called police because they said Adcox was drunk and making a scene, and officers arrived and told him to leave.

Officers saw him enter House of Doggs, but left to respond to an unrelated complaint on Eighth Street. A House of Doggs employee sounded a panic alarm moments later, and officers went there.

The incident likely was unsettling for employees, Heffner said.

“The women who were working certainly expect customers to behave in a certain way, and to not come behind the counter, and when it does happen it’s certainly alarming,” he said.

House of Doggs owner Nick McAllister said his employees weren’t physically harmed. It’s not entirely uncommon for intoxicated people to cause problems at the restaurant, he said.

“It’s really not surprising,” he said. “Our restaurant is right next to bars.”

McAllister hopes to avoid such incidents in the future.

“It’s not a big deal, but it’s something that doesn’t need to be happening,” he said.

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