Man booked with sexual battery after jailers report 2 attacks on deputies

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An Orleans Parish jail inmate faces new allegations of sexual battery and battery of a police officer after authorities said he aggressively grabbed the groin area of two deputies in separate incidents while in custody.

Metairie's Michael Edwards, 29, had no previous felony arrest record in Orleans Parish criminal court, but was booked with a misdemeanor allegation for which he was taken to Municipal Court earlier this week. Details of the incident that prompted Edwards' first arrest were not immediately available in Edwards' court file.

But records show Edwards, whose forehead bears a large scripted "WHO DAT" tattoo, is accused of attacking deputies Monday (Aug. 3) and Tuesday.

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An arrest report says Edwards was handcuffed in the front and seated on a bench Monday in the day room of Orleans Parish Parish, during transfer to the Templeman V building. Officials said that's when he suddenly lunged forward and grabbed a deputy's testicles. The deputy's condition was not disclosed.

And six sheriff's deputies had to come to the aid of two others on Tuesday, records show, when they said Edwards became violent again Tuesday inside a transport van that had brought him to the Municipal Court's sally port entrance. The report said Edwards was kicking the van's glass windows and "swinging around a metal stepstool inside the van."

The report says Edwards refused instructions to drop the stool, and instead he threw it, striking a deputy. The report said deputies sprayed Edwards' face with a pain-inducing foam to subdue him.

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