Police: 'Captain Save a Ho' Arrested Again for Pushing One-Legged Man Off of Wheeled Movement Device

A North Liberty man was arrested and charged with assault yesterday after he allegedly pushed a one-legged man off of the device he was using for transportation and then harassed him on the ground.

According to an Iowa City police complaint, Jerald Thomas Navarre, 36, of North Liberty was pointed out by witnesses and the victim after police officers received the report of an assault at about 11:30 p.m. at 101 S. Dubuque Street.

Navarre has been in trouble with the law on several occasions before, once gaining news attention for claiming, following an arrest for intoxication in 2011, that he protected local women on the Pedestrian Mall under the name of "Captain Save a Ho." Captain Save a Ho was arrested later that year for throwing rocks at a homeless couple. He also has an extensive arrest record including a felony burglary conviction.

The witnesses told officers that Navarre pushed the victim off of the wheeled device he was using due to his handicap, according to the complaint. The man then fell hard into the street, scraping his left elbow and the stump of his right leg.

The witnesses told police that Navarre then allegedly stood over the man and grabbed the man him by his face and acted "disrespectful" toward him. Police say he was then "extremely hostile" toward the victim and witnesses, yelling and screaming in their direction as he was placed under arrest.

Navarre was booked into the Johnson County Jail in Iowa City and charged with public intoxication, a simple misdemeanor, and assault causing bodily injury, a serious misdemeanor. He remains there on $2,500 bond.