A naked teen suspected of trying to steal a car and an airplane was Tasered and then arrested after charging officers Friday, police said.

A man was in his car on Airport Road near Tsunami Skydiving when a bleeding, naked 18-year-old man started banging on his windows about 7 a.m., Oceanside police Lt. Leonard Cosby said. The victim called police and said the man, who claimed he had a gun, was trying to get inside the vehicle.

Two officers arrived. The naked man reportedly clenched his fists and walked aggressively toward one of the officers who ordered the man to stop. He didn’t, and the officer shot him with his Taser, Cosby said.

The man fell to the ground, but soon got up, ripped the Taser darts from his body and charged the officer who shot him, according to Cosby.


The officer and the man got into a fight, and the second officer soon intervened. Both officers struggled with the man, who was Tasered a second time. Officers eventually took him into custody, Cosby said.

Investigators determined the man had also forced his way into and broke a window at the Tsunami Skydivers building just north of state Route 78. He also tried to steal a plane from the nearby Oceanside Municipal Airport tarmac, Cosby said.

The Oceanside resident was arrested on suspicion of attempted carjacking, burglary, attempted theft of an airplane and resisting police officers with violence. He is being help on $75,000 bail.