Air Force Capt. Nicolas Aquino's future is on hold as he faces charges arising from entering his own house in Monterey County, Calif., KSBW reports.
Aquino, who is a student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, got the news of his arrest when his school supervisor called him and told him he is barred from campus until he has handled the charges—resisting arrest and obstructing a peace officer.
This all began in December, Aquino said, when a county sheriff's deputy came to investigate a 911 call and began treating him like a criminal. A neighbor had apparently called the authorities, saying that a man was walking around the house suspiciously.
The deputy demanded to see Aquino's ID, startling the Air Force captain.
"All he said was, 'I need to see your ID.' At that moment, I'm like, 'Excuse me, sir, but who are you? And why are you here?'" Aquino told KSBW.
"He says it again: I have to produce identification. At that moment I asked him, 'Am I being detained?' He said, 'Yes,' and so I said, 'OK, then my name is Nicolas Aquino. I live right here. I'm in the military,'" said the first-generation immigrant, whose parents are political exiles from Paraguay.
Aquino said he pulled out his military identification but didn't hand it to the officer.
"That's when he grabs my wrist, puts me in a front guillotine, slams my head into the ground and spins around and does a rear naked choke, so he puts me in a choke hold," Aquino said.
The deputy's incident report reads: "The male then pulled his hand away from me, thereby moving the card away from my hand. I decided at that point I would detain him physically and place him into handcuffs.
"I yelled at the male to put his hands out to his sides. The male never complied. He was beginning to draw them in closer to the center of his body. Afraid that the male was going to reach for a weapon, I contemplated disengaging from him, drawing my own firearm and taking aim," the report continued, according to KSBW.
However, according to Aquino, he could not move, did not resist, and did not have a weapon on him.
He was eventually released after he showed the deputy bills with his name and address on them. He thought the incident was over.
But it wasn't.
Weeks later, there was an arrest warrant out for him with misdemeanor charges. He had a pretrial hearing on Wednesday.
Aquino's lawyer tried to get the district attorney to drop the charges but failed.
Aquino was once featured in an Air Force promotional video.
Read more at KSBW.