Cops found a man in a Stirling street with a baseball bat shouting and swearing after they were called out to a disturbance.
The incident involving Zac Sneddon had occurred in Maurice Avenue, where the 25-year-old lives, on Friday December 13, 2019.
Sneddon, who appeared for sentence at Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday, had admitted charges of threatening behaviour and resisting police officers by struggling violently with them.
Fiscal depute Amy Sneddon told Stirling Sheriff Court that police had received a 999 call at 1.45pm that day about an ongoing disturbance in Maurice Avenue.
Officers had been asked to attend at the street in relation to “numerous persons shouting and swearing.”
When officers turned a corner, the fiscal depute said, they saw the accused with a baseball bat.
However, Sneddon quickly disappeared from sight and they followed to speak to him.
They then saw him standing in a garden shouting and swearing.
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The fiscal depute added: “As they approached the accused he droped the baseball bat from his possession onto the ground.”
Police tried to take control of the accused to arrest him, but Sneddon began to resist and pulled his arms away and struggled with officers in an attempt to break free.
When he was placed in a police vehicle and cautioned and charged he made no reply.
Sneddon’s agent Virgil Crawford told Sheriff Francis Gill that his client had been at his home address that day.
He had been having difficulties with his neighbours,
Mr Crawford continued: “He accepts that he picked up the baseball bat within his own premises.”
The lawyer also said there had been no issues with the neighbours since the matter before the court.
Sneddon’s circumstances however had changed meantime and he was now employed earning £400 per week.
There was one court matter outstanding. Sneddon’s last conviction had been 2016, for which he was admonished and he had been out of trouble for some time. Mr Crawford asked Sheriff Gill to deal with the matter with a fine.
Sheriff Gill however deferred sentence on Sneddon until July 26 to call along with other matters. Bail was continued meantime.
