It was a wild New Year's Eve for Florida Keys resident Deni Noa.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the 24-year-old Stock Island resident reached into a car and punched a woman in the eye as she was idling at a light on US 1 and Cross Street around 9: 30 p.m. He then fled the scene on foot.
While a deputy was taking a statement from the female victim, 911 dispatchers received complaints of a naked man laying in the roadway near the Key Haven boat ramp.
Cops found a nude Noa with two other men, later identified as his brothers, who were struggling to grab their sibling and put him in the trunk of a car, NBC 6 reports. A deputy pointed his Taser at the three brothers until back up arrived.
The woman showed up at the scene and identified Noa as her attacker. Monroe County Sherriff deputies claim Noa refused to cooperate and threatened to kill the two cops arresting him when he got out of jail. At the jail, Noa had to be put in a restraint chair because he kept fighting; at one point kicking a deputy in the kneecap.
He was charged with battery, assault and battery on a law enforcement officer, making threats to a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and resisting arrest without violence.
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