A man is in custody after allegedly fleeing from police trying to get him to drop his guns.

Plumsted Police were called to a home on Carter Lane on Sunday for reports of a man smashing things inside, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said.

Officers found Nicholas Markee, 31 of New Egypt, wielding two handguns, waving them in the air, Billhimer said in a statement. Markee ignored an officer’s commands and then fled into the woods behind the home.

After interviewing residents, investigators learned Markee had fired one of the guns into a wood pile outside.

An initial search did not find Markee, so law enforcement secured a perimeter and sent in the Ocean County Swat Team and the Plumsted Police K-9 Lock and handler Officer Ryan Nani.

Markee was then arrested, and is now in the Ocean County Jail on criminal mischief and weapons charges. That jail database lists “Hick Life” as one of his aliases. He also uses the “Hick Life” moniker on social media.

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