Chase leads to assault charges BY JORDAN MUHLESTEIN Standard-Examiner staff jmuhlestein@standard.net MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE Charges have been filed against a Harrisville man arrested last week after police say he used his car to attack a group of younger men. Michael William Grignon, 39, was arrested Friday on suspicion of two counts of third-degree felony aggravated assault in the incident. Charges were filed Tuesday, and Grignon should appear in 2nd District Court next week, according to a court clerk. Weber County Capt. Klint Anderson said the incident started about 10 p.m. Friday at the Top Stop at 1210 W. 12th St. The store manager told responding deputies that a car with five male passengers parked at one of the gas pumps and two of the occupants ran behind the station toward a group of townhouses, Anderson said. The manager thought their actions were suspicious. The two men returned to the vehicle at the gas pump, and the five men drove away. Anderson said the manager and her boyfriend, Grignon, got in a four-door Volkswagen Jetta and followed the other car. At some point, they realized they were being followed and they stopped about a block away and confronted Grignon, Anderson said. During the confronta-tion, Grignon was punched several times, Anderson said. Grignon then pulled away, turned around and drove through the group of men, hitting two of them. The two men's injuries were minor and they were not taken to the hospital. "After he drove through them, he drove back to the Top Stop," Anderson said. Three of the men followed Grignon's car back and jumped on the car, damaging the windshield and attacking Grignon. The store manager stepped out of the car with a cell phone, Anderson said, and one of the men grabbed her and threw the phone away. Deputies arrived on the scene quickly. Those three, Chance Rutherford, 20, Ogden, and Caleb Dinsdale, 20, and Austin Carter, 19, both of Harrisville, were cited for various misdemeanors by deputies at the scene. Anderson said any time someone sees suspicious activity, they should call the authorities rather than take matters into their own hands. "If they are, in fact, criminals," he said, "they may be armed and they wouldn't want to be caught. It is always a risk when a citizen decides to detain or stop or interrogate a suspicious person." As for the young men running back and forth from the Top Stop to the townhouses, Anderson said investigators have not found they were doing anything illegal.