CRANE COUNTY--Chasing storms is what Brian Barnes does for a living.  And it was while he was doing just that, that he says he found himself in a difficult and strange situation involving a Crane County Sheriff's Deputy. Barnes was out on Tuesday in Crane County as severe weather moved across the region. Crane County was under a tornado warning for about an hour Tuesday night.

"I told him that I was helping out the National Weather Service in San Angelo, and they were relaying my reports to Midland.  He told me he didn't care, and that I needed to go."

Barnes thought it was his obligation to stay put and follow the storms, a decision that landed him in jail. 

"He jumped out and put me in handcuffs.  I turned around and I remember him slamming me up against his vehicle, and then it all got kind of scary."

"His first words to me were, 'are you a blankety-blank idiot?'  He told me if I didn't leave, I was going to jail, flat out," Greer said.