Motorcyclists already have a hard enough time looking good in the public eye. We don't need any help with negative press. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have told Phillip Michael Clevenger, a 27-year-old rider in Sandy, Utah, that. Well, Clevenger is innocent until proven guilty; however, these are the allegations he faces.
Clevenger has been charged with allegedly assaulting his 76-year-old neighbor after the elderly man told the younger rider to stop revving his motorcycle's engine at 1 am. The charge against Clevenger is intentional or knowing aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and interfering with a peace officer. The former crime is a second-degree felony, while the latter is a Class B misdemeanor.
After the Sandy City Police Department was contacted about the alleged assault on March 23, officers went to the neighborhood where they met the 76-year-old man, who said that he had been physically assaulted. He explained that Clevenger was revving his bike as the elderly man pulled into the garages at their shared apartment complex, so he walked outside to ask him to stop. Allegedly, Clevenger then got off his motorcycle, pushed his elderly neighbor to the ground, before hitting him several times in the face.
