A "STAR Wars" fan has felt the full force of the law and been jailed for assaulting three people with a pair of toy lightsabers.

David Allen Canterbury was on Monday sentenced to 45 days jail for the assaults at a Toys R Us store in the northwest US city of Portland, Oregon, last month, The Oregonian reported.

Canterbury even got a taste of what it would be liked to zapped by Emperor Palpatine during the December 14 incident. Police resorted to using a Taser on the 33-year-old after he kept swinging the toy weapons at them as they tried to arrest him.

He even managed to deflect a wire from the Taser away with the fictional weapon from the "Star Wars" films.

Canterbury told Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Walker that he was seeking mental health treatment as he pleaded no contest to fourth-degree assault and resisting arrest charges on Monday.

Judge Walker - who dismissed charges of interfering with a police officer, theft and disorderly conduct - also sentenced Canterbury to two years’ probation and ordered him to undergo a mental-health evaluation.

Canterbury has been banned from Toys R Us stores.



Originally published as Man jailed for lightsaber assault