Bonita Springs man, upset over wife's vacuuming, charged for alleged assault, battery on deputies

A Bonita Springs man upset that his wife was vacuuming the home while he was trying to sleep was later tasered by Lee County sheriff's deputies after he pointed a rifle at them.

Ashton C. Provost, 47, was charged with battery, two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. He was released on $38,000 bond and will be arraigned May 29.

Deputies were called to a Delaware Street address for a domestic disturbance shortly after 9 p.m. Friday. A woman at the home identified as Provost's wife told deputies that Provost was drunk, had just returned from rehab and attacked her.

A Lee County sheriff's report said she told deputies that Provost pulled the vacuum cord out of the wall and told her to stop with the noise.

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When the woman told Provost she was calling the sheriff he threw a barstool at her, hitting her and smashing apart on the kitchen table, the report said.

When deputies approached Provost he fled into the home and exited again through the rear with a rifle, pointing the weapon at an officer armed with a taser.

The deputy shot Provost with the taser, forcing the man to drop the rifle, and then arrested him.

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