NEWAYGO COUNTY, MI -- A man is accusing two Newaygo County sheriff’s deputies of abuse, one for allegedly shattering his shoulder while he was in custody and the other for ignoring his plea for medical help.

Bernard Stout filed a lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids against the two deputies and Newaygo County.

In the lawsuit, he alleges he was taken into custody May 11, 2018 at Newaygo motel after arguing with a man who was with his girlfriend.

Stout claimed he was slammed to the ground with excessive force, causing him to bleed out of his right hear and from the side of his head. Later, he alleged, the same deputy was transporting him in the back of a cruiser when the deputy stopped the vehicle, threw him to the ground and stomped on his left shoulder.

Stout claimed he was restrained at the time.

Once at the Newaygo County Jail, he was taken to a hospital to be checked, according to Stout’s attorneys. Stout alleged an X-ray showed a shattered left shoulder and that a doctor referred him to an orthopedic specialist.

He claimed a sheriff’s lieutenant then refused to allow him to see the specialist and his injuries went untreated for three months. It was more than three months later, according to the allegations, when a jail physician diagnosed him with four fractures and he was allowed to see a specialist.

He had surgery on Sept. 9 and doctors used a plate, bar and pins to repair the shoulder, attorneys allege.

Stout claimed he repeatedly begged jail staff, including the lieutenant, for medical help because of extreme pain following his May arrest.

Newaygo County Sheriff Bob Mendham, contacted by email, said he could not comment on pending litigation.

Stout was charged with several counts for the May incident, including resisting and obstructing police, two counts of assault and battery, one count of malicious destruction of a building and two counts of malicious destruction of property.

The resolution of the charges was not immediately clear.