On July 21, 2020 at approximately 2:43 a.m. members of the Manchester Police Department Patrol Division responded to The Foundry Restaurant, located at 50 Phillippe Cote Drive, for a burglary in progress. Officer Christopher Abele, Thomas Donovan and Sergeant Jared Yaris responded to the area and immediately noticed multiple broken windows on the patio side of the building. They also heard glass shattering from inside the bar area and noted the entire restaurant was in complete disarray due to broken glass and alcohol covering the floor of the restaurant.

They observed a male subject inside of the restaurant when they entered the premises. The subject, later identified as arrested, Michael Grove, 35 of Oak Ridge, TN was actively destroying the interior of the restaurant by throwing multiple bottles of liquor and breaking other items behind the bar area.

The officers ordered him to stop on multiple occasions, but Grove ignored their commands and continued throwing bottles of liquor toward the officers. A less lethal round was deployed, while Grove continued to act aggressively by throwing more liquor bottles at the officers. One of the bottles narrowly missed Sergeant Yaris’ head.

Fortunately, Sergeant Yaris was able to quickly move out of the way before the bottle of liquor struck his head. His quick actions caused him to injure his hand when he lost his footing on the slippery floor and landed on his hand. He immediately got back up and was able to deploy another less lethal round. The second less lethal round had the desired effect on Grove, so they placed him into custody without further incident.

Sergeant Yaris’ was treated at an area hospital for the injury to his hand and later released. Grove was charged with; Burglary (A), Reckless Conduct (B), Criminal Mischief (B) and Resisting Arrest. The owner of the restaurant arrived on scene and estimated the damages to be in excess of $250,000.