RPD: Shoplifter Threatened Officers With Knife

Rochester Police have arrested a 32-year-old city man for menacing a police officer and having stolen property after he pulled a knife on officers.

Police stopped Martin Mack with an armload of stolen merchandise from the Hudson Avenue Walmart.

When they told him he was under arrest, he began to resist, and pulled out a pocketknife with which he threatened the officers.

They shot Mack with a Taser and took him into custody.

An officer was injured in the process and was treated and released from the hospital.

Mack was also treated at the hospital before being taken to jail.

He also turned out to be wanted on a pair of bench warrants for trespassing and threatening a store employee with a machete.


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