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A North Dakota man arrested four years ago in Cody claims the city's current assistant police chief used a Taser on him while he was handcuffed, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Juan Paul Flores further alleges George Menig assaulted him while other officers were present and caused severe and permanent injuries. Flores filed the suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Wyoming.

Menig hadn't filed a legal response to the lawsuit as of Monday afternoon. Phone calls to the Cody Police Department for comment were not returned.

Flores alleges Menig, who was a captain at the time of Flores’s arrest on Sept. 13, 2010, unnecessarily removed Flores’s clothes and tased him, according to the suit.

Flores responded to assist police officers during Flores’s arrest near River View Drive and Highway 120 North in Cody. Flores had allegedly told a Park County deputy he would “blow things up.”

Before Menig arrived, officers searched Flores for explosive devices and did not find any. Flores had already been handcuffed and “determined not to be a risk to anyone” before Menig arrived, his lawsuit states.