Naked man attempts to stab female officer, then is tased and arrested
By: Police body camera video released on Thursday showed a man attacking officers with a butcher knife while naked.
Nathaniel Miller, 23, is accused of charging a Delhi Township police officer with the knife while she responded to a call near Anderson Ferry and Foley Road on Wednesday.
He’s facing multiple charges, including felonious assault, resisting arrest, aggravated menacing and public indecency.
Bodycam video showed the man at the window of the officer’s cruiser immediately as she arrived. Miller can be seen sticking the knife through the open window of the cruiser.
The officer is shown grabbing the knife by the blade and ripping it away from him.
“She did sustain a cut in the hand when she grabbed the knife,” Lt. Joe Macaluso said. “She’s going to be fine, but it’s scary. It just goes to show you never know what a police officer is going to deal with at any given moment.”
Macaluso said the officers who responded to the call didn’t know Miller had a weapon.
“We were never updated or advised that there was a knife at all,” Macaluso said. “All we responded to at the time was a man that didn’t have any clothes on that was approaching cars and possibly breaking into cars.”
Court documents say Miller exposed himself to at least one person and threatened another.
“He admitted to the officers that he was on some drugs as well,” Macaluso said. “We’re looking at whether that played a significant role. Whether mental health played a role or was it a combination of both.”
Miller is being held on a $75,000 bond. He’