Orange County Sheriff’s deputy Adam Popp was patrolling the Knights Pub parking lot Saturday night when he tried to break up a fight that ended with him being attacked and the attacker tasered, according to a sheriff’s report.
Popp was on a SNAP patrol, a joint program with the University of Central Florida Police Department to crack down on underage drinking.
A report stated that Popp was monitoring the parking lot due to many small fights breaking out before leaving the bar. In front of him, Popp wrote, two males broke out in fight. When a third male tried to break it up, one male fighter who was identified as Colin Robillard, punched the third male in the face, according to the arrest affidavit.
The deputy sheriff identified himself to Robillard and tried to gain control of the situation by placing the defendant on the ground, reports show. However, Popp said Robillard resisted his efforts.
“I was immediately met with physical resistance. Mr Robillard pulled away from my physical grasp and stated aggressively swinging his fists in my direction,” Popp said in the arrest affidavit. “As he was swinging his fists, he struck me in the head at least once with a closed fist.”
Both subjects ended up fighting on the ground as Robillard “continued to aggressively swing his arms and fists” toward Popp, according to the affidavit.
Robillard had his legs around Popp “so as to limit his ability to move away from the attack,” a supplemental report from OCSO Deputy Richard Pillay said.
“Each time he would pull an arm away from my grasp he would swing a fist. I attempted to give two distracting strikes to Mr. Robillard’s upper back in an attempt to gain control of his arms,” Popp reported.
The report shows that when Popp’s attempts did not succeed, Pillay tased Robillard.
“I then hear another Deputy yell ‘Taser! Taser!’ I immediate disengaged from Mr. Robillard to move away from the Electronic Control Device,” Popp reported.
Pillay gave Robillard loud clear verbal commands to stop resisting before activating the ECD, the supplemental report states.
After he was tased, Robillard still rested and was lying on one arm while tensing the other, the affidavit states.
The affidavit said Robillard was still resisting orders to place his hands behind his back. According to the report, it was not until he was tased again before Popp was able to place one of the defendant’s arms behind his back.
The defendant still resisted with his remaining arm but was eventually able to be placed in handcuffs, Popp reported.
Robillard admitted to drinking and said he believed to have no injuries, but recently had surgery, the affidavit stated.
The report also said that the deputy could not locate the third male that tried to stop the fight.
“Robillard’s engaging in a fight with at least two subjects outside a bar where he had been consuming alcohol to the point of intoxication and endangering others is disorderly intoxication,” according to the arrest affidavit. “His aggressive resistance and strike to my head at least one time with a fist is battery on a law enforcement officer.”
Robillard was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and resisting an officer without violence, the affidavit stated.
