COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A traffic stop with a vehicle believed to be involved in a hit-skip escalated between the suspect and arresting officers, resulting in multiple charges filed.
According to a criminal complaint, Hilliard police initiated a traffic stop Thursday at 4:10 p.m. in the Scioto Trace area, near Dublin Road in west Columbus. Officers were investigating a suspected hit-skip on Cemetery Road in Hilliard and traced a Jeep Cherokee to the home of 38-year-old Grant Wachtelhausen.
Hilliard police report that Wachtelhausen first threatened an officer over the phone, saying, “I will murder you,” before he was detained.
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Wachtelhausen then allegedly became combative with the arresting officer before the officer who talked to Wachtelhausen over the phone arrived to assist. It was then that Wachtelhausen allegedly spit in the assisting officer’s face and said later that he had “AIDS and herpes.”…