Police: Man harasses Cumberland County residents without permission and threatens to use pepper spray

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – An out-of-state man illegally solicited Cumberland County residents and even threatened to pepper spray someone during an altercation, a police report says.

Camp Hill police said a 44-year-old Washington, D.C. man was arrested Friday and charged with simple assault, harassment and disturbing the peace. The suspect was not identified by police.

The man, police said, went to residents and solicited door-to-door despite not having a permit from the municipality to do so. He then brandished pepper spray while shouting obscenities and racial slurs at a driver when an altercation broke out with them, police said.

Police were able to arrest him after beginning their investigation after 7 p.m. when they were dispatched to the 2300 block of Logan Street.

After his arrest, the man was taken to the Cumberland County Jail.