A Cou­va man was ar­rest­ed on Box­ing Day af­ter curs­ing and as­sault­ing an of­fi­cer who came to his home to in­ves­ti­gate a re­port­ed dis­tur­bance by his wife.

Po­lice said the 25-year-old of John Bap­tiste Road in Bal­main was tak­en to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion, where he re­mained up to yes­ter­day.

Of­fi­cers ar­rived at the sus­pect’s house around 3.20 am on De­cem­ber 26, af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion that there had been a wound­ing at the premis­es.

Up­on ar­rival, of­fi­cers saw two men seat­ed in the gallery, and fol­low­ing en­quiries, both men de­nied any dis­tur­bance.

The sus­pect re­port­ed­ly said, “No of­fi­cer, no one make a re­port.”

Short­ly there­after, a woman ap­proached the of­fi­cers and said, “Yes, of­fi­cer, it’s me who called the po­lice.”

Po­lice said the sus­pect be­gan be­hav­ing ag­gres­sive­ly to­wards the of­fi­cers, fol­low­ing which he al­leged­ly be­gan curs­ing.

Cau­tioned about his con­duct, the sus­pect walked out of the gallery and stood on the road, where he re­port­ed­ly be­gan shout­ing at the of­fi­cers and threat­en­ing to kill them.

The man was again cau­tioned by of­fi­cers who moved to ar­rest him. Po­lice claimed he vi­o­lent­ly pushed an of­fi­cer, caus­ing him to stum­ble back­wards.

A strug­gle en­sued be­tween the of­fi­cer and the sus­pect, which prompt­ed a fe­male of­fi­cer to in­ter­vene in or­der to make the ar­rest. Po­lice said the sus­pect con­tin­ued to threat­en the of­fi­cers. Of­fi­cers of the Crime Pa­trol ar­rived a short time lat­er and as­sist­ed by tak­ing the sus­pect to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion.

The of­fi­cer who was as­sault­ed sought med­ical at­ten­tion at the Cou­va Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

—An­na-Lisa Paul