Man With 'Dirtbag' License Plate Uses Ethnic Slurs, Fights Cops

BELLEVUE, WA - An ethnic-slur wielding, gun toting, cop-punching"Dirtbag" was arrested in Bellevue on Sunday after a melee at a car wash, according to police.

The 40-year-old man - driving a Camaro with a vanity plate the read "Dirtbag" - got into a minor rear-end crash with another driver while waiting in line at the Factoria Brown Bear car wash. When the other driver got out to inspect the damage, the man got out of the "Dirtbag" armed with a gun.

Police arrived around 3 p.m. and found the man in the "Dirtbag" Camaro and refusing to get out. When police removed him from the car, he allegedly punched one officer in the face and disparaged the ethnicity of the man he rear-ended.

Police shot the man with a Taser and were able to take him into custody. He was facing multiple charges including first-degree assault with a gun, assaulting a police officer, malicious harassment, obstructing police, and resisting arrest. Malicious harassment is Washington's hate crime law.

Police also impounded the "Dirtbag" - the car, that is.

Image courtesy Bellevue police