PORTAGE IN Aug 29 2020 — A security officer at the North Porter County Government Complex was injured when an 18-year-old Portage man refused to sign a court document and began a fight, according to Porter County police.

Isaiah Spann faces felony counts of battery to a law enforcement officer and resisting a law enforcement officer resulting in an injury, and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, police said.

Spann was at the building to appear before Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Thode for initial hearings in two cases, one involving felony and misdemeanor counts of intimidation and the other for misdemeanor criminal mischief, according to court records.

It is in the former case that no-contact orders were issued and that the security officer asked Spann to sign when the offense occurred, according to police and court records.

Spann reportedly signed one of the orders, but threw the second on the floor. When the security officer asked him to pick it up, Spann began yelling and disrupting a nearby courtroom, police said.

Spann then pushed the officer and began resisting and fighting, causing redness, bruising and bleeding on the officer’s arm, police said. The fight wound up on the ground as other security officers showed up to assist.

A responding police officer said Spann, who was being held in a cell at the courthouse building, continued to yell and scream after they arrived.

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