(ROBERT)---A Ponchatoula man has been charged in connection with a case where he allegedly engaged in an altercation with family members, threatened to kill any deputies if they came for him, and eventually was captured by a K-9 unit, according to the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office.

Tangipahoa Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that 43-year-old Charles W. Mulkey, Jr., has been charged with two counts of simple battery, aggravated assault, resisting an officer, and on a failure-to-appear warrant.

The incident began on Monday, March 30, along Deer Ridge Road near Robert. The sheriff says that deputies responded to a call of a domestic disturbance. The victim told deputies that Mulkey, Jr., had been drinking all day and an altercation began.

The sheriff says that she maintained that Mulkey, Jr., began playing with a shotgun, became more aggressive, and destroyed several items around the house. She added that he fled in a pickup truck before deputies arrived.

Sheriff Edwards says that Mulkey, Jr., later went back to the residence and that deputies responded, seeing Mulkey, Jr., flee into the woods. He says that deputies tried to get him to come out. When he wouldn't, deputies sent in a K-9 to apprehend him.

Sheriff Edwards says that after Mulkey, Jr., was treated at a local hospital after the K-9 apprehension, he was taken into custody.

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