A 41-year-old man faces up to three years in state prison for an altercation with police during which he deployed an electric shock weapon on an officer.

Hector Fernandez, previously homeless, pleaded guilty to charges of assault and battery, attempting to disarm a police officer, three counts of assault and battery on a public employee, carrying a firearm without a license, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest. 

He was sentenced Oct. 28 in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River to two to three years in state prison, followed by two years of probation in connection to the March 2024 incident, according to a release from the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office.

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