The following is a news release from University Communications:

(October 1, 2012) — The University Police Department at Fresno State took an unarmed man into custody today after he perched in a tree in the Free Speech Area of campus and refused to climb down despite repeated orders from Fresno Fire Department and University Police personnel.

University Police report­the man was first reported acting erratically inside the Henry Madden Library­this morning before he went outside and climbed the tree across from the Free Speech Area stage near some student organizations’ booths. As a crowd gathered, University Police sealed off a portion of the area and spent more than an hour trying to coax the man to come down a ladder raised near the tree trunk.

The confrontation ended when the man stepped toward a ladder, which, after he balked, was knocked aside by officers. They grasped him and brought the man to the ground. University Police transported the man to a hospital to evaluate his complaints of pain and then to the Fresno County Jail.

Details on what charges might be filed were not available.