Man angry after arrest threatens to eat cops and their kids, dogs

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - A Frankfort man faces several charges after investigators said he stole a car, then threatened to hunt down and eat the police officers who arrested him, along with their families and even their dogs.

Detectives said he did it all with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit for driving.

Lafayette police said 39-year-old Paul Brock stole a car at about 10 p.m. Friday from the Speedway gas station on Elmwood Avenue. Detectives said the gas station manager, Crystal Cochran, had just unlocked the car and left it running so it would be warm at the end of her shift.

Police stopped the car in the Pay Less parking lot at Maple Point Drive and Ind. 38. Officers said Brock kicked a police dog twice in the head before he could be arrested.

When Brock was taken to the hospital, detectives said he told police he would hunt down every officer involved in his arrest and eat their children, dogs and their entire families.

Preliminary blood tests show Brock's blood alcohol content to be 0.26%.

Brock faces three felony charges, auto theft, auto theft with a prior conviction and intimidation. He also faces four misdemeanor charges, resisting law enforcement, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with at least 0.15 gram of alcohol, and striking/interfering with a law enforcement animal.

He was being held Wednesday in the Tippecanoe County on $25,000 bond.