51-year-old David Hayes of Middletown pleaded no contest yesterday to misdemeanor charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct. He has also been banned from the beach for a year.
Hayes was ordered to pay $525 to Karl Glaeser of Newport for a coat and gloves he damaged with the pepper spray. Hayes will also pay the court $187.
Glaeser had intervened with his two dogs when he was walking his pets on the beach on December 14th and encountered Hayes threatening another dog owner with his pepper spray.
Hayes had told Barbara Shamblin of Portsmouth, who was walking her two dogs unleashed, to leash her dogs. The town has a leash law for the beach.
When Glaeser intervened, Hayes sprayed him in the face and one of his dogs.
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