Naked man gets tangled in barbed-wire fence

A Boise man is in the Ada County Jail on a variety of charges, including battery on a police officer and being naked in public. According to a news release from the Boise Police Department, officers on patrol early on Saturday morning saw a naked man – later identified as Grant Gardner, 23, of Boise – run past their patrol car, in a parking lot at Military Reserve Park.

It was around 5 a.m., very cold and had just begun to snow, according to the release. Officers instructed the Gardner to stop and sit down. He reportedly started to comply, but then took off running again - into the dog park and behind several buildings on the 200 block of Collins Road. Officers eventually caught up to the suspect as he tried to scale a fence with barbed wire along the top.



Officers instructed the suspect to stay still as they requested additional assistance to safely remove the man, who had then become entangled in the barbed wire. According to the release, the suspect refused to stay still and officers helped him as he came down off the fence. Once down, the suspect then allegedly punched one officer in the face. After a brief struggle, the suspect was taken into custody.

Officers smelled alcohol on his breath, and believed his unusual behaviour was due to possibly being intoxicated. Paramedics responded to the scene and treated Gardner for minor injuries. He was then transported to the Ada County Jail and booked on felony battery on an officer, and misdemeanors of public nudity, resisting and obstructing an officer, and public intoxication.