Jesse Nathaniel Monteath in Rockhampton court for assaulting police

A private school graduate has found himself behind bars after he assaulted police officers and resisted arrest, having to be chased by police onto school grounds even after being tasered.

Jesse Monteath.

A Rockhampton private school graduate has found himself behind bars after he assaulted police officers and resisted arrest, having to be chased by police onto school grounds even after being tasered.

Rockhampton Magistrates Court heard Jesse Nathaniel Monteath, 24, resisted arrest after police were called to an address in Gracemere on May 11 at 3am.

Magistrate Grace Kahlert said multiple police officers were involved in the arrest, with Monteath refusing to put his hands behind his back and ignoring directions to stop resisting and co-operate with police.

Ms Kahlert said things escalated when the father-of-one pushed two police officers into a fence, breaking it.

One police officer was injured when they fell onto the concrete driveway and Ms Kahlert said a taser was drawn.

She said Monteath was instructed to stop resisting, however he did not listen or co-operate and was tasered.

Even after being tasered, the Heights College graduate continued to struggle and ran away onto school grounds.

Ms Kahlert said another police officer had his taser drawn and warned Monteath to stop.

She said Monteath ignored the police officer who had to use force to take him down to the ground and arrest him.

Defence lawyer Samantha Legrady said her client was born in Rockhampton and grew up with his parents, who separated when he was 12 years old.

Ms Legrady said her client, who had six siblings, found it “quite stressful” and “difficult” growing up in two different homes.

Ms Legrady said Monteath, a fibreglass technician in the process of applying to university to study a bachelor of civil engineering, started drinking alcohol and using marijuana when he was about 13 or 14 years old and.

She said he was drunk at the time he committed the offending before the court.

“He does not want to drink alcohol again,” she said.

“He realises that is an issue for him.”

Ms Kahlert said police had “much more important things to do” than to deal with “drunken men in the middle of the night who don’t follow their directions”.

“That’s a terrible waste of valuable police time,” she said.

Monteath pleaded guilty on June 3 to five counts of obstructing a police officer and two counts of assaulting a police officer.

He was sentenced to four months prison, wholly suspended for an operational period of 18 months.

He was also ordered to probation for 18 months.

Criminal convictions were recorded.