The owner of a firearms training center in Vermont has pleaded not guilty to felony aggravated assault stemming from an altercation during his arrest. Daniel Banyai, who had a swollen eye, appeared in court by video on Thursday.
FILE - Daniel Banyai, the owner of Slate Ridge, speaks to supporters, April 17, 2021, in West Pawlet, Vt., during a Second Amendment Day Picnic. Banyai, the owner of a former firearms training center in Vermont, was arrested on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 in Pawlet, Vermont, state police said. Daniel Banyai appears remotely in Rutland County Superior criminal court in Rutland, Vt., on Thursday, March 21, 2024.
Banyai was a passenger in a vehicle that a Pawlet town constable pulled over for speeding Wednesday, Vermont State Police said. When Constable Thomas Covino ordered Banyai out of the vehicle, he refused and called Covino a “dirty cop,” according to the police affidavit. Covino said he called dispatch and asked for a state police trooper to respond but was told that a trooper was 35 to 40 minutes away, the affidavit states.
Covino said he didn’t know if Banyai hit him first or he pepper-sprayed first. The constable managed to get Banyai on the ground and placed him in handcuffs, then attempted to get the pepper spray off Banyai’s face at his request. If he makes bail and is released, the judge ordered he be on a nightly curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at his property in West Pawlet and is not allowed to leave the state unless he has permission from the court.
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