George McFatten III convicted of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence
A man who appeared naked in a Palm Bay couple’s back yard then attacked police in a storage shed has been sent to prison for the frightening rampage. (Image by State Attorney’s Office)
BREVARD COUNTY • PALM BAY, FLORIDA – A man who appeared naked in a Palm Bay couple’s backyard then attacked police in a storage shed has been sent to prison for the frightening rampage.
Brevard County prosecutors convicted George McFatten III of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence at a jury trial in February.
At his sentencing hearing April 21, Circuit Judge Charles Crawford sentenced McFatten to seven years in state prison.
The stunned couple called police one night in December 2023 when McFatten entered their pool enclosure in their southwest Palm Bay yard while muttering something about “Jeremiah.”
McFatten, a registered sex offender with a record of violence, was nine miles from his own address in northwest Palm Bay.
He left the patio but refused to leave the property and headed for the shed.
A man who appeared naked in a Palm Bay couple’s back yard then attacked police in a storage shed has been sent to prison for the frightening rampage. (Image by State Attorney’s Office)
When police arrived, they found McFatten trying to close the shed door with straps.
McFatten threw chains at police from the shed, then fought with officers who had to tase him several times before wrestling him to the shed floor.
At trial, Assistant State Attorneys Dakota Fraley and Jay Fowler presented testimony from a Palm Bay officer who was bitten by McFatten during the struggle and was later treated at the hospital. Jurors watched police body camera video of a nude McFatten throwing chains, fighting police, and refusing to cooperate.
“The officers did a great job of taking care of a dangerous situation and were harmed by the defendant in the process,” Fowler said. “Our community is safer today because of their efforts to take this offender off the streets.”
