What apparently started as a dispute between juvenile pedestrians and a dog owner ended with two males arrested Friday shortly before 8 p.m. after a brief struggle and flight from officers of the Perry Police Department.
A caller to the Perry Police Department about 7:30 p.m. said juvenile passersby near Fourth and Estella streets threatened to come back with weapons and kill his dog.
Officers responded and made contact with a group of three or four young males near Seventh and Estella streets.
The officers appeared to converse calmly with the youth for about 15 minutes until, for reasons unknown at this hour, the boys became “uncooperative,” according to radio traffic.
One youth appeared to resist detainment alongside a police patrol vehicle while another youth fled the scene on foot with an officer in hot pursuit.
The boy ran about two blocks to his mother’s residence in the 600 block of Grove Street, where he was soon afterward taken into custody at gunpoint by a Perry Police Department officer with assistance from two Dallas County Deputy Sheriffs.
It is unknown at this hour whether any weapon was recovered.
ThePerryNews.com will update this story as information becomes available.
