A 32-year-old local man has been charged with exposing officers to Hepatitis C after he allegedly spat on a sheriff’s detective and threw a drink in a correctional officer’s face.

Brandon Lynn Tallent, who has reportedly told authorities that he is Hep-C positive, was charged with driving under the influence; two counts of resisting stop, frisk, halt, arrest; two counts of criminal exposure of another to HBV; and assault after an incident following an arrest for DUI on Jan. 31. Tallent was also cited for failing to give immediate notice of an accident, driving on highways laned for travel, violation of financial responsibility, and violation of implied consent.

According to Sheriff Patrick Ray, Tallent showed up at his grandmother’s Big Rock Road home and told her that he had wrecked his vehicle on McGinnis Road. The woman reported the accident, and a deputy soon arrived and noticed that Tallent appeared to be intoxicated.

Ray said that the officer asked Tallent to perform a field sobriety test, but he allegedly refused. The officer then placed Tallent under arrest and brought him back to the jail in order to obtain a search warrant for a blood withdrawal. While at the jail, Tallent reportedly took a cup of an unknown liquid and threw it in a correctional officer’s face. Then, after Tallent was taken to the hospital for the blood withdrawal, he allegedly spat on a detective.

“A deputy was called to a residence on Big Rock Road,” The arrest warrant reads “The caller, Tallent’s grandmother, said that Tallent was in the front yard crying and ‘acting awful.’ Tallent told the deputy that he had just wrecked his vehicle down the road, and asked the officer to take him back there to look at it. The deputy noticed that Tallent was very unsteady on his feet and that his speech was slurred. After the officer took Tallent back to the crash site, he asked him to submit to field sobriety tasks but he refused. Tallent was then taken into custody and a search warrant for a blood withdrawal was obtained. While in a holding cell at the jail, Tallent resisted arrest by “pulling and jerking” as correctional officers were trying to handcuff him during an altercation there.”

Ray said that when correctional officers were preparing for Tallent’s transport to the hospital for the blood draw, the man threw a cup containing an unknown liquid an officer’s face. Tallent apparently became even more irate at the hospital.

“He was pulling and jerking his hands away forcibly and had to be restrained. He did spit at a detective from the sheriff’s department. Tallent has revealed in the past that he is Hepatitis C positive,” the sheriff said.

Tallent’s bond totals $16,500 on these charges, but he is being held without bond for a violation of parole. His will appear in court to face the local charges on Feb. 16.

Christopher Cook, 35, was arrested on Feb. 2 after eluding authorities for more than a year.

The sheriff said that a deputy pulled a truck over on December 8, 2015 because a brake light was out on the vehicle, and found Cook to be a passenger. A computer check revealed a failure to appear warrant against him from Warren County. Cook then reportedly fled the scene. Authorities located and arrested him on Feb. 2

His bond was set at $5,000, and he will appear in court on Feb. 16

Meanwhile, James Howard Markham, 54, was arrested on Jan. 31 and charged with his fourth DUI and habitual offender driving on revoked.

Markham, who reportedly has had five prior convictions for driving on a revoked license, was busted again when a deputy dispatched to Nashville Highway in reference to a possible drunk driver in a blue GMC truck. Contact was made with the truck, and a traffic stop was initiated. Ray said the driver was found to be Markham, who had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his person, slurred speech, and was unsteady on his feet.

He submitted to standard filed sobriety tasks, and performed poorly. A check revealed that his license was revoked in Davidson County.

His bond was set at $9,500, and he will appear in court on Feb. 16.

Jack Mullican Jr., 38, was charged with aggravated assault on Jan. 30.

Ray said a deputy responding to Adcock Cemetery Road to check out reports of a physical domestic spoke to a woman at the scene who told him that Mullican, her boyfriend, had pushed her to the ground and strangled her. The victim had difficulty swallowing and breathing, and there were red marks on her neck and chest.

His bond is set at $2,500, and he will appear in court on Feb. 16.