EBENSBURG - Apparently a four-month jail sentence wasn't enough to teach a Johnstown man a lesson Friday about kicking at a window in his holding cell at the Cambria County Courthouse.

The unruly man, Matthew Greene, 22, of Wood Street was zapped with a stun gun in the courthouse after he became belligerent and flailed at a deputy who was escorting him from his sentencing on institutional vandalism Friday morning.

"He started calling a deputy a bunch of names, using foul language, and then started flailing at him with his cuffs on," Sheriff Robert Kolar said of the incident, which caused a scene at the courthouse around noon.

It prompted nearby courthouse employees to hit an alarm button, alerting a second wave of deputies to respond, although Kolar said the incident was quickly defused and the deputy was not injured.

"We were escorting him into the holding cell and he started kicking at the window shield again - the same thing that got him sentenced in the first place," he said, noting that when deputies called for a Taser, Greene said, "Go ahead."

One shot was fired, Kolar added.

"We didn't have to stun him again," he said. "He was cooperative very quickly."