Deputies use stun gun to arrest Vancouver man

Deputies used a stun gun to arrest a man Monday morning who reportedly walked into a Salmon Creek house and stayed in the yard after being asked to leave.

A husband and wife were at their home, 12517 N.E. 20th Ave., when a man walked into their house through an unlocked door and began talking to himself, Clark County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Fred Neiman said.

“It doesn’t appear he was there to steal anything or do anything,” Neiman said. “He was just babbling away, didn’t make a lot of sense.”

When the couple asked the man to leave, he left the house but went into the yard and sat in a chair and continued to talk to himself, Neiman said.

When patrol deputies arrived at about 11:10 a.m., the man, identified as 33-year-old Scott Michael Hulett, became confrontational, Neiman said. A physical altercation followed, and deputies used a stun gun to subdue Hulett, who is 6 feet 9 inches tall and 250 pounds, Neiman said.

He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree trespassing and booked into the Clark County Jail.

Hulett is listed as a sex offender, according to a registry accessed through the sheriff’s office website. He was convicted of first-degree child molestation in 1999 and of failing to register as a sex offender in 2004 and 2007, according to the registry.