Jerod Beaulieu (Beltrami County Jail)
BEMIDJI, Minn. (KFGO) – A Beltrami County Sheriff’s deputy in northern Minnesota was forced to use a pepper ball gun on a man who charged at deputies with a machete early Monday.
Sheriff Jason Riggs says deputies responded to a residence in rural Bemidji around 1:30 a.m. where a caller said a man, identified as Jerod Beaulieu, was holding a syringe to another person’s neck.
When officers arrived, Beaulieu was standing on the home’s deck holding a large knife and machete. Deputies say he appeared to be under the influence of drugs and was threatening them after they told him he was under arrest.
After about 15 minutes of negotiating with Beaulieu from the ground, he jumped over the deck’s railing and charged deputies with the knife and machete.
A deputy deployed the pepper ball gun and hit Beaulieu multiple times in the body.
Beaulieu was arrested and taken to the Beltrami County Jail.
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