SPRINGVILLE – A Mitchell man was arrested on Wednesday, June 7, after a Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputy responded to a report at 1:06 a.m. of a suspicious male standing in the middle of the road on Sieboldt Quarry Road had jumped in front of a vehicle.
When the deputy arrived he found 42-year-old Matthew Stigall walking in the roadway near the entrance of Camp Indicoso on Sieboldt Quarry Road.
Stigall had his right hand up and holding what appeared to be black pants in his left hand. The deputy stopped and approached Stigall. The deputy said Stigall was speaking “in a very erratic manner”. He then threw his pants in the road and told the officer he could search them. The officer said Stigall appeared “very angry”.
The officer asked Stigall if he needed assistance. Stigall claimed to be “an Army lieutenant and he was Judas Iscariot with a pentagram in his eye and his hands”. He then began walking away from the officer and then began to run away.
The officer believed Stigall was intoxicated. Stigall was given a command to stop, however, he ran faster and the officer lost sight of him. The officer then gathered Stigall’s pants and attempted to find him with another deputy who had arrived on the scene. Officers located Stigall running through a yard in the 1000 block of Sieboldt Quarry Road. He then jumped a fence at 1728 Sieboldt Quarry Road and attempted to hide in the tall grass behind the fence. Stigall then stood up claiming he was Judas, God, a lieutenant in the Army National Guard, and a pastor. He told police he had five-point pentagrams in his hands and his right eye. He continued to rant inappropriate phrases.
Stillgal was asked what he had taken and responded he had not been drinking and that he would take a breathalyzer.
A Bedford Police officer then arrived to assist.
An officer then climbed the fence and approached Stigall to detain him. Stigall began yelling at the officer to get away from him saying the officer was Satan. Stigall continued to move away from the officer and then climbed the fence with the assistance of the other officers on the scene and was detained on charges of disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and resisting arrest.
