Petit Valley man arrested for fighting, biting police officers

Shane Su­perville

A Pe­tit Val­ley man has been charged with sev­er­al counts of as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in Arou­ca on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers were on pa­trol along the East­ern Main Road when they no­ticed a man wear­ing black pants and a sin­gle black sock on his right foot while curs­ing at peo­ple.

The of­fi­cers ap­proached the man and warned him about his be­hav­iour, but he re­spond­ed by curs­ing at them.

One of the of­fi­cers at­tempt­ed to ar­rest the man by plac­ing his hands be­hind his back. How­ev­er, he pulled away.

Oth­er of­fi­cers then tried to sub­due him, but the man kicked and punched sev­er­al of­fi­cers, strik­ing a Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble (WPC) on her right hand.

An­oth­er of­fi­cer was struck on the head and hand and was bit­ten on his left an­kle.

Po­lice even­tu­al­ly over­pow­ered the man and took him to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion.

The of­fi­cers lat­er went to a health fa­cil­i­ty for treat­ment, where it was de­ter­mined that the WPC sus­tained a frac­tured hand, while an­oth­er of­fi­cer suf­fered a frac­tured arm.

Two oth­er of­fi­cers were al­so treat­ed for chest in­juries.