Police: Man found crawling ‘like a zombie’

A Springfield man who police said was crawling “like a zombie” while under the influence of “bath salts” has been sentenced to two months in jail.
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Police: Man found crawling ‘like a zombie’ By ERIC FRANCIS CORRESPONDENT | August 31,2015 Email Article Print Article WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Police: Man found crawling ‘like a zombie’ By ERIC FRANCIS CORRESPONDENT | August 31,2015 WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield man who police said was crawling “like a zombie” while under the influence of “bath salts” has been sentenced to two months in jail. Dwight Bundy, 31, pleaded guilty last week to disorderly conduct obstructing pedestrian and vehicular traffic before he was returned to the Springfield prison where he was already incarcerated on an unrelated matter. Springfield Police Cpl. Michael Gilderdale wrote in his affidavit that he was dispatched to Pearl Street in Springfield on June 30 to help an ambulance crew with a seizure patient. He said traffic was halted and a crowd was gathering around Bundy, yelling at him about “the druggies in town and what it was going to take to get the police to clean them up.” Gilderdale said Bundy “kept tipping forward onto his face. ... His face was red and the veins in his neck and arms were bulging, (and) his knees and elbows were bloody.” Bundy told him he “just felt sick,” the officer said. He flung a pill bottle with 10 prescription pills into the weeds, the affidavit said. Bundy refused to go to the hospital and was released by the Springfield Ambulance crew. He allegedly told Gilderdale the prescription pills were not his, and was placed under arrest. In December, Bundy was arrested on a charge of possessing bath salts and allegedly told police he was dependent on bath salts and heroin. Police said he claimed to have trouble getting into a drug rehab program due to lack of insurance. Dwight Bundy, 31, pleaded guilty last week to disorderly conduct obstructing pedestrian and vehicular traffic before he was returned to the Springfield prison where he was already incarcerated on an unrelated matter. Springfield Police Cpl. Michael Gilderdale wrote in his affidavit that he was dispatched to Pearl Street in Springfield on June 30 to help an ambulance crew with a seizure patient. He said traffic was halted and a crowd was gathering around Bundy, yelling at him about “the druggies in town and what it was going to take to get the police to clean them up.” Gilderdale said Bundy “kept tipping forward onto his face. ... His face was red and the veins in his neck and arms were bulging, (and) his knees and elbows were bloody.” Bundy told him he “just felt sick,” the officer said. He flung a pill bottle with 10 prescription pills into the weeds, the affidavit said. Bundy refused to go to the hospital and was released by the Springfield Ambulance crew. He allegedly told Gilderdale the prescription pills were not his, and was placed under arrest. In December, Bundy was arrested on a charge of possessing bath salts and allegedly told police he was dependent on bath salts and heroin. Police said he claimed to have trouble getting into a drug rehab program due to lack of insurance.