The former University of Connecticut student who went on a drunken tirade over the school’s cafeteria not serving him bacon jalapeno mac and cheese had another legal meltdown.
Luke Gatti, now 20, threatened to take his own life when he was arrested last month after he broke out of a rehab center in Boca Raton, Fla. and assaulted a female cop, according to a police report.
The trouble started just a few hours after the Long Island resident had arrived at the Wellness Resource Center following a stint at a detox center in Fort Lauderdale in compliance with a court-ordered substance abuse treatment program.
Gatti, who was exhibiting symptoms of alcohol and drug withdrawal including elevated vitals, became “agitated” when a rehab nurse denied him any medication to deal with the pain, according to the report.
He fled the facility barefoot, returning about three hours later even angrier than before.
“He was screaming at the staff members to give him his property back,” Officer Gina Schuss wrote in the report.
“He then made statements that he did not care if he got hurt or if he hurt himself and he wanted to be left alone,” she added.
Schuss and a fellow officer followed him when he attempted to leave the building again— trying to grab his hand to stop him from opening the door.
While trying to escape the cop’s grip, Gatti “caused the door to come off its hinges,” sending both him and the male officer toppling onto the ground. They both had minor injuries from the fall.
“Gatti continued to struggle at which time I stated, ‘Stop resisting or you will be tased,’” Schuss wrote.
He was charged with resisting arrest and battery of a law enforcement officer on May 27 and released four days later from Palm Beach County Jail after posting $5,000 bail.
While in the back of Schuss’ cop car, Gatti pleaded with Schuss to just “do him a favor and shoot him with my duty weapon,” she said.
“I just want to die, I just want to die,” Gatti told her.
He is scheduled to be back in court at the end of July.
Gatti’s boozy antics went viral last October when a YouTube video showed him going on an expletive-ridden rant demanding his favorite mac and cheese while he sauntered around the dining hall with a bottle of beer.
He got into a physical fight with the cafe’s manager, leading him to get charged with breaching the peace and criminal trespass.
A Connecticut judge gave him a slap-on-the-wrist sentence in December of one year of probation, entering into a substance abuse program and 100 hours of community service.
Following the incident, which led to him getting kicked out of UConn, he went on an apology tour posting his own YouTube video and traveling to South America to visit the cafe’s manager.
“He gave me so many chances to walk away and I didn’t listen to him,” he said in the video. “I was just a complete a–hole to him instead. No one deserves to be treated that way ever.”