A 42-year-old street ven­dor ap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate court vir­tu­al­ly for as­sault­ing two po­lice of­fi­cers.

The charges, five in all, stemmed from an in­ci­dent along High Street, San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with Head of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice (south) Snr Supt Ce­cil San­tana and oth­er of­fi­cers.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cers spoke to the woman three times about sell­ing mar­ket pro­duce, in­clud­ing pi­men­to, chive and cel­ery, from a card­board box on the pave­ment as she was block­ing the free pas­sage­way.

How­ev­er, she re­fused to heed their warn­ing.

When the of­fi­cers tried to ar­rest her she al­leged­ly be­came vi­o­lent. While the of­fi­cers were try­ing to sub­due her, San­tana and Cpl Lewis re­ceived in­juries.

Lewis suf­fered a sprained waist while San­tana re­ceived an in­jury to his thumb. She was even­tu­al­ly ar­rest­ed and charged by WPC Coop­er with as­sault­ing two po­lice of­fi­cers, re­sist­ing ar­rest, pitch­ing a stall and ob­struc­tion of a foot­path.

The of­fi­cers sought med­ical treat­ment.

And a man al­leged­ly scuf­fled with the po­lice, dam­ag­ing an of­fi­cer’s jer­sey and jew­ellery, when the po­lice tried to ar­rest him in Pe­nal. The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 5.30 pm on Mon­day when the po­lice re­spond­ed to a re­port of a dis­tur­bance at Mo­ra Dri­ve, Sou Sou Lands.

PCs Heer­alal and Daly saw a 25-year-old man stand­ing in the road­way and shout­ing ob­scen­i­ties. While speak­ing to him, the of­fi­cers de­tect­ed that he was smelling of al­co­hol.

PC Heer­alal told him about his be­hav­iour and he re­port­ed­ly replied, “Them is (ex­ple­tive) thief.”

While at­tempt­ing to ar­rest the sus­pect, PC Heer­alal was hit on his shoul­ders while the sus­pect al­leged­ly grabbed the neck area of the of­fi­cer’s T-shirt and his gold chain.

While try­ing to help his col­league, PC Daly was hit by the man on his left wrist. The man was even­tu­al­ly sub­dued and tak­en to the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

The of­fi­cers as well as the man were med­ical­ly ex­am­ined at the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty.