Humbird Man Arrested After Incident at Cenex C-Store on Highway 12

Monday, October 6th, 2025 -- 3:00 PM

(WEAU Staff, WEAU) A man is under arrest after getting into a fight with police when being questioned about an incident at a gas station Friday.

Fairchild Police we called to Cenex C-Store on U.S. Highway 12 for reports of man threatening people with a knife. According to WEAU staff, Troy Lee Perkins, of Humbird, was identified as the suspect in a video showing a man pulling a knife from his waist icepick grip, displaying it to the store clerk. Perkins was pulled over not too long after.

While police were questioning Perkins, police said he got hostile and kept asserting he had constitutional and federal rights, while also telling police they did not have the right to pull him over because he was traveling.

Perkins also made the claim of there being no credible witnesses to what he was being accused of. Perkins was still arrested on probable cause. Police said Perkins began to resist arrest, which led them to use pepper spray and some level of physical force.

Police were able to take Perkins into custody after EMS was called to check on Perkins at his request. There is now a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and a felony charge of failure to comply while armed with a weapon recommended against Perkins.

He is being held at the Eau Claire County Jail.

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