Man fouls holy water

“He’s intimidating, he’s aggressive, but he knows when to back off,” Waterbury said of the man’s contacts with law enforcement officials.

He has a particular animosity for police officers, Waterbury said, and has “very aggressive behavior toward cops, calling all cops ‘baby rapers’ and other names. He obviously is trying to goad officers into some sort of action that he could maybe file a lawsuit or something, I don’t know.”

The Chronicle is not naming the man, since he was not arrested.

Church officials told police they would file criminal charges if any could be articulated, but Waterbury said what the man did wasn’t criminal. However, the church plans to trespass the man if he comes back, and call police if they have trouble getting him to leave.

Fr. Joseph Levine, priest at St. Peter, said he did not think the man deserved any attention.

The 48-year old white male is six feet tall, Waterbury said.

He said the police department has been getting alerts about the man for at least the last three years. The alerts are sent nationwide by other police departments who have had problems with him.

Waterbury said, “We’ve never had as many alerts on any one person nationwide as I’ve seen with this guy.”

In a rarity, the man has even been trespassed from the police department, and when he came to file a police report the other day, he was asked to go outside and an officer would meet him there to talk, Waterbury said.

He was trespassed when he used “language that was unacceptable,” Waterbury said.

He said the man has not had many contacts with local police, and they aim to keep it that way.

Waterbury said he tells his officers to “stay away from him. There’s no reason to make any contact with him to cause problems unless we know he’s done something wrong.”

Prior to this year, he estimated the man had been in The Dalles perhaps a couple of times. “And obviously in the past several months he’s been here I don’t know how many times. I don’t know where he stays or where he’s

really from or anything.”

A sheriff in the Nebraska town where the man grew up told the Chronicle earlier that he gets calls from police departments across the country asking about him.

The sheriff said the man was a tough person who feared no one.

Waterbury said most of the officers in the department have had contact with the man.

“He likes to hang out in the parking lots,” Waterbury said. “People get concerned about aggressive behavior and they call us.”

Waterbury said he has been videotaped by the man. The man was taping Waterbury in the police department when Waterbury stopped him. “I told him I wouldn’t allow him to videotape me in the police department.”

Waterbury suspects the man continued to tape him because he wears dark glasses that have an embedded recording device.

The man posts videos to Youtube, but many get taken down due to complaints.

The law allows anyone to be taped, virtually anywhere, with exceptions like in dressing rooms.

“With the way things are nowadays with cellphones, it used to be you had to advise somebody you were videotaping them but that’s no longer true, because people videotape police all the time so they don’t need to advise us anymore,” Waterbury said.