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An Antioch, Tennessee man wanted for escape was arrested Sunday in Morristown.

Michael Nita, 22, was charged with escape and driving on revoked/suspended license.

According to a report from the Morristown Police Department, at 6:45 a.m., officers were investigating a suspicious person inside a 2016 Ford Focus parked in the back parking lot behind McDonald’s on Buffalo Trail next to the Bounce House.

Officers saw Nita inside the car and said that he “Was just waiting to go to work,” at Dollar General in Bean Station. While officers were conducting a records check, Nita left the parking lot and began to drive on Buffalo Trail towards Bean Station.

Officers followed at a safe distance.

The records check revealed that Nita had a violation of probation for evading arrest from Franklin County, Tennessee. Officers initiated a traffic stop on the Olen Marshall Bridge. When told to turn the vehicle off, Nita became upset and began accusing officers of “harassing” him. After several commands to turn off the vehicle, officers got Nita out of the car and turned it off.

When officers told Nita that he had a warrant in Franklin County, Nita began to make vague threats to officers saying that, “He and his people were incels” and would make officers regret arresting him. However, Nita never described any actual plan to personally do harm to any officers.

While Nita was in a patrol car, he slipped his handcuff restraint to the front of his body. Nita was removed and had his hands resecured behind him and leg restraints applied. While being transported to Hamblen County Jail, Nita was struggling and moving around in the back of the patrol car. When Nita was told to stop, officers noticed that Nita had slipped his handcuffs back to the front of his body and released himself from the leg restraints. Officers pulled around Buffalo Trail Storage to resecure Nita. When officers opened the rear passenger door of the car, Nita scooted to the rear driver side away from officers. Officers warned Nita to get resecured or officers would get him out of the car, but he refused. Officers pulled Nita out of the car, placed him on the ground and awaited backup. Other officers arrived and assisted in resecuring Nita’s hands behind his back with hinge handcuffs and resecuring his legs with restraints.

A hold has been placed on Nita by Franklin County.