A 35-year-old Fulton County man faces multiple charges after temporarily escaping custody, attacking deputies, and flooding his cell.
According to an affidavit filed Aug. 3, on Monday Aug. 1, Fulton county Deputies were called to a domestic altercation and report of false imprisonment on Stateline Road in Viola involving a female victim and 35-year-old Dustin Lee Helton.
When they arrived, they met with a female who appeared to be in physical and emotional distress.
Helton exited the residence and was known to officers to have outstanding warrants for arrest. He was placed under arrest and handcuffed.
While deputies investigated the altercation, Helton fled on foot away from the deputies for several hundred feet before he was re-taken into custody.
Helton was then placed inside the patrol vehicle, but a short time later slipped his cuffs to the front.
He was removed from the vehicle and resecured with his hands behind his back and placed in the vehicle again this time with a seat belt.
Marks were found on the legs of the victim who stated she had been jerked from a vehicle onto the ground by Helton.
While in the vehicle, Helton attempted to kick one of the deputies from the back seat, had successfully unbuckled his belt and leaned forward screaming at the deputy.
Helton was removed from the vehicle, restrained a second time and transported to the jail where he was then placed in a holding cell he later flooded with water.
Helton has been charged with escape in the third degree, a class C felony; assault on a law enforcement officer, a class D felony; fleeing on foot, a class C misdemeanor; domestic battery in the third degree a class A misdemeanor; resisting arrest, a class B misdemeanor and impairing the operations of a vital public facility, a class A misdemeanor.
Bond for Helton was set at $10,000.
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