A 31-year-old Bozeman man was arrested on suspicion of sleeping naked in a Dier Lane garage and then roaring at officers trying to capture him. Thomas Lehman Manley was arrested on Tuesday on misdemeanor charges of criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and obstructing an officer. He was initially ordered held in the Gallatin County jail on $855 bond.
According to court documents: A man arrived home at around 5:15 p.m. to find a strange pickup truck in the driveway of his home in the 100 block of Dier Lane. He went inside and saw signs that someone had been in the garage. Inside the garage, the man discovered Manley asleep on the floor in a sleeping bag. Manley awoke when the resident kicked his feet, and the two briefly spoke.
Then Manley "jumped up and spun out of the sleeping bag" completely naked. Manley then ran inside the house and locked himself in the bathroom. A Gallatin County sheriff's deputy and a Montana Highway Patrol trooper arrived, and Manley "came running out of the bathroom toward (the officers) yelling and waving his arms around. He was still naked and unarmed."
Manley returned to the bathroom and closed the door. He emerged once more and "roared and threw his arms around." He continued to roar and pound the bathroom door and wall. When Manley opened the door to roar again, the trooper used a shotgun to shoot him in the stomach with a non-lethal beanbag. Manley continued to resist arrest, but the officers were able to cuff him. "The entire time he did not say a word, just yelled or roared."
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