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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A man taunted police to arrest him during a traffic stop Thursday and he was taken into custody, police said.</p><p>Arnold Donovan, 25, was a passenger in a Mercedes Benz that was stopped for a broken windshield shortly after 3 p.m. in the area of Beekman Street and Old River Road, police said.</p><p>According to police:</p><p>Donovan got of the vehicle and walked toward the police cruiser yelling at the officer who called for assistance. The officer got out of his cruiser and asked Donovan to get back into the Mercedes, but he continued to yell profanities, saying police were harassing him for the broken windshield.</p><p>Donovan told the officer another officer had pulled him over for the windshield and allowed him to drive the vehicle. He kept yelling profanities, swinging his arms and running in circles between the stopped vehicles.</p><p>The officer instructed Donovan three times to get back into his vehicle, but he kept yelling and stuck out his hands and said &#8220;Arrest me then.&#8221; The officer took Donovan into custody.</p><p>While in custody he acted belligerently for approximately 45 minutes. The female driver of the Mercedes yelled at Donovan to be quiet. She was given a verbal warning for the motor vehicle violation, told to have the windshield repaired and released from the scene.</p><style>
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Passenger taunts police to arrest him during traffic stop and is taken into custody