VIDEO: Powerball jackpot winner tackled, tased after kicking Pinellas deputy

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — Newly released video showed exactly what happened as a new Powerball jackpot winner from Kentucky got a bad run-in with Pinellas County deputies last April.

According to an arrest affidavit, James Farthing, 50, of Georgetown, Kentucky, was at the Island Grand at Tradewinds when he got into a fight with another man on April 29.

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Body cam video showed a deputy rushing to separate the two men, restraining the other combatant.

That’s when Farthing tried to kick the other man, only to kick the deputy in the face instead, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said…

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