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Grants Pass Police arrested a man on an outstanding warrant plus new criminal offenses while investigating a domestic disturbance in the south part of the city yesterday.

According to the Police Department, officers were alerted to the incident at a home in the 400-block of West Harbeck Road on Wednesday at 10:45 a.m..

Police said a 22-year-old male subject violated his no-contact release agreement by contacting the victim at his residence. They said he was also found to be wanted on a Grants Pass warrant for failing to appear in court for 4th-Degree Assault. He was located in the laundry room of the home and then fled out the back door.

When the subject was advised he was under arrest, he ran back into the residence and tried to hide in a bedroom. He resisted being placed into custody by tensing up his body and refusing to place his hands behind his back. He was eventually subdued by multiple officers, but no one was injured.

The suspect was lodged at the Josephine County Jail on the warrant as well as new charges of Contempt of Court, Resisting Arrest and Escape. He was being held without bail.