COVINGTON, Ga. – Deputies responding to a Mother’s Day family fight deployed a Taser to arrest a Newton County man after he tried to keep them from conducting their investigation.

According to a Newton County Sheriff’s Office incident report, deputies were dispatched to the home on McGiboney Drive just after 11 a.m. May 13 on the report of a family fight. When they arrived at the home, 36-year-old Justin Ryan Wilbanks reportedly assumed an aggressive fighting stance.

Deputies had to use force, including deploying a Taser, to bring Wilbanks into compliance with verbal orders. According to a NCSO spokesman, deputies found methamphetamine while Wilbanks was being searched after his arrest.

He was transported to the Newton County Jail charged with willful obstruction of law enforcement and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance.

The spokesman said there were no injuries in the incident.