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MORE DETAILS: Emmet County Man Gets Tasered By Police

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More details now on an Emmet County man tasered by police, after they say he became aggressive.

David Whitlow is accused of threatening investigators from the Emmet County Sheriff's Office and the Harbor Springs Police Department with weapons, but that's just the beginning.

Whitlow is also accused of having explosives and preparing to burn his own house down.

The whole ordeal unfolded early yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, in the Harbor Point Association, in Harbor Springs.

9&10's Christina Vecchioni and photojournalist Eric Davis have more details on what investigators say happened.  

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Officers tasered an Emmet County man after they say he threatened them.

Deputies and officers went to David Whitlow's home in Harbor Point yesterday to serve a warrant for writing a bad check.

That's when they say he became combative and they had to use a taser on him.

They took Whitlow to jail, more charges could be coming.

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