An Arkansas father is facing a felony charge after his arrest Thursday for allegedly piercing his son’s ear.
Chaos erupted during the Tontitown Police Department’s welfare investigation when a Springdale High School resource officer reported a student told classmates that his drunken father had “chopped him down and pierced his ear.” Police said. In a statement.
Jeremy Sherland, 45, admitted to piercing his son’s ear, but refused to let officers speak to the boy – and did not answer further questions.
Police later returned in numbers with an arrest warrant issued by the Washington County Prosecutors Office, sparking the mayhem captured on video.
In a TikTok posted by Sherland’s son, four stone-faced officers are seen inside Sherland’s home, pinning the father to a wall and handcuffing the man.
“I wanted my ears pierced,” Sherland’s son is heard yelling at the officers. Now viral video.
As the confusion ensued, Sherland’s wife surrounded the officers and repeatedly asked why they were in the house and demanded to know what led them to arrest her husband.
“Why are you doing this,” Sherland’s son asked the officers as they manhandled his father.
During the chaos, an officer explains to the woman that the father is being arrested for “unlicensed body art”, to which Sherland laughs exaggeratedly and sarcastically repeats the officer, surprised by the charges. done
Officers then tried to get the father out of his home but Sherland put up a brief struggle – forcing police to push him out the front door.
As the officers marched the enraged father away from the suburban street, his wife and son followed, both in complete disbelief at the situation.
“So three policemen, four policemen, come to my house without permission. No permission and busted in my front door,” his wife yells at the cops as they head towards their vehicles with her cuffed husband.
“I wanted my ears pierced,” Sherland’s son yells at officers as they put his dad in a patrol car.
in the In Arkansas, it is illegal For artists “to perform body art on a person under sixteen (16) years of age, regardless of parental consent.”
Violation of that law is a Class D felony.
Because Sherland was not a licensed artist, it was illegal for him to “exhibit body art in any unlicensed facility.”
The father was also charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, refusing to appear for arrest and obstructing official business.
Sherland was released on $1,500 bond Saturday after spending two nights in the Washington County Jail, according to Online records.
“The officers informed Jeremy that he was under arrest and explained probable cause for the arrest. Jeremy refused to comply. Officers then took him into custody,” the statement read.
