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Deputy Sheriff Matthew Tunney responded to a 911 report of a property damage auto accident on Secor Road in Mahopac about 7:50 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.
The deputy arrived less than a minute later to observe a male subject standing outside a vehicle that had been driven into a stone wall, police said. The male subject began to walk away from the deputy and repeatedly ignored the deputy’s commands to return to the scene, police said. An eyewitness to the accident identified the male subject as the driver, the sheriff said.
When the deputy again commanded the male subject to return to the scene of the accident in order to investigate the accident, the man became physically combative with the deputy and attempted to grab one of the deputy’s weapons, the sheriff said.
The deputy subdued and arrested the man, identified as Maikhaz Gvaladze, 49, of 160 E. Lake Boulevard, Mahopac. The deputy arrested Gvaladze on charges of driving while intoxicated and with resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, after the man failed a series of standardized field sobriety tests, the sheriff said.
The defendant was arraigned before Southeast Town Justice Gregory Folchetti and committed to the Putnam County Correctional Facility in lieu of $1,000 cash bail or $2,000.00 bond, pending a future appearance in the Carmel Justice Court. If found guilty of the misdemeanor charges, the defendant faces up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 for each charge.
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