Deputies: Inmate fought officers
Sergeant required medical treatment at local hospital
MILTON, N.Y. >> An inmate at the Saratoga County Jail, who is facing charges following a 20-hour standoff with police in Halfmoon, is facing new charges for allegedly assaulting a corrections officer.
Michael J. Davis, 38, of Clifton Park, was charged with second- degree assault, a class D felony. He was sent back to jail in lieu of $ 50,000 bail or a $100,000 bond.
Saratoga County Sheriff ’s deputies said after Davis refused to comply with direct orders, he fought with officers, injuring a sergeant who required medical treatment at a local hospital.
Davis was arrested in April after an armed stand off with police at Halfmoon Heights, the former Turf Mobile Home Park.
Police said Davis was at a home there to visit his child. An order of protection for that address and for a resident there had been issued earlier in the month. The order prevents Davis from being at the home and having contact with one of the occupants there.
Police said the residents were able to get out of the house when Davis arrived with a shotgun.
Once inside and as law enforcement began to arrive, he refused to leave and made various threats which included suicide.
Once state police were sure Davis was alone, officers surrounded the residence and established communications with him to negotiate a surrender. Negotiations occurred throughout the long standoff that went through the night and ended Monday morning. During that time police said several rounds from a gun were fired, one exit- ing the home. Davis eventually surrendered peacefully after tear gas was used.
Davis was charged with first degree criminal contempt, first degree reckless endangerment, menacing a police of ficer, fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon and a state Department of Environmental Conservation violation for discharging a firearm.