A Texas man is accused of firing a pellet gun and brandishing knives after being told he couldn't pump his own gas on the Oregon coast Friday morning.

Leroy John Davis, 32, got into an argument over service with a male gas attendant at Bill's Chevron at 580 N.W. Hemlock St. in Waldport and then left, said Sgt. Adam Shanks, a Lincoln County Sheriff's spokesman. Davis soon returned with an air-powered pellet gun, allegedly fired at the attendant and fled again.

The attendant was not hit by the plastic pellets, Shanks said.

Davis returned again, was told to leave by the attendant, but instead pulled out two knives and yelled at the attendant, Shanks said. Davis left again when the attendant told him the sheriff's office had been called.

Deputies stopped Davis in his vehicle in Seal Rock and arrested him, Shanks said. Marijuana hashish and smoking materials were found during a vehicle search.

Davis was booked into the Lincoln County Jail on unlawful use of a weapon, menacing, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass charges. It was not immediately clear Friday where in Texas Davis is from.

Oregon and New Jersey are the only states in the U.S. that don’t allow drivers to pump gas when at a filling station.

-- Everton Bailey Jr.