An Iowa man was arrested in Henderson County after battering a sheriff’s deputy.
37-year-old Spencer W. Bright of Fairfield was taken into custody after resisting arrest, causing deputies to use a taser on him.
Henderson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene of a suspicious male subject walking southbound on Illinois Route 522, near US Route 34 in Gladstone Township.
Chief Deputy Matthew Link says that a deputy located Bright and he was identified as having an active McDonough County warrant.
After he was tased and secured, deputies located Methamphetamine on him. He was taken to a hospital for evaluation and released before he was taken to the Henderson County Jail.
He was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer, possession of meth, and resisting a police officer.
One deputy received minor injuries and was treated and released from a hospital.
Assisting the sheriff’s department was the Illinois State Police.