Man in Wheelchair Reportedly Threatens to Bring 'Iron Pigs' to Kill Officer and Family

A Buford man allegedly threatened to come to an officer's house with other members of the "Iron Pigs" and kill the officer.

The man, who was in a wheelchair, had been detained in handcuffs by security personnel at 37 Main on March 17 after reportedly throwing beer bottles on the floor and breaking them, pulling over speakers and entering the ladies' restroom. When security personnel asked him to leave, the man, later identified as David Bensinger, 52, of Buford, did not comply.

"Bensinger became combative head butting one security guard and ripping the shirt of another," the officer wrote in the report. "He was so combative that they placed him in handcuffs."

When the officer first arrived at the scene, he asked Bensinger for his name. According to the police report, Bensinger responded by saying, "All you need to know is Iron Pigs [expletive deleted]."

The officer asked Bensinger about the Iron Pigs and, at that point, Bensinger allegedly told the officer that if he was not released, he and the Iron Pigs would show up at the officer's house and kill the officer and the officer's family. Bensinger reportedly made a similar statement to another officer.

Bensinger was placed under arrest and, according to the police report, spit on another officer as he was being placed in the patrol car.

Bensinger was booked into the jail on charges of simple battery and disorderly conduct (fighting words). 

"While he was at the jail I heard him threaten violence to the deputies on duty several times," the officer noted in the report.

Bensinger was released from jail later that day on a $2,600 bond.

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