SASCHA WIL­SON

A man al­leged­ly scuf­fled with the po­lice, dam­ag­ing an of­fi­cer's jer­sey and jew­ellery, when the po­lice tried to ar­rest him in Pe­nal.  He is ex­pect­ed to be charged with as­sault.

The in­ci­dent re­port­ed­ly oc­curred around 5:30pm on Mon­day, when the po­lice re­spond­ed to a re­port of a dis­tur­bance at Mo­ra Dri­ve, Sou Sou Lands.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, PCs Heer­alal and Daly saw a 25-year-old man stand­ing in the road­way, shout­ing ob­scen­i­ties.  While speak­ing to him, the of­fi­cers de­tect­ed the smell of al­co­hol about his per­son. 

PC Heer­alal re­port­ed­ly cau­tioned him about his be­hav­iour and the man is said to have replied: "Them is F..... thief."

In the process of ar­rest­ing the man, PC Heer­alal held on to his left arm, but the man re­port­ed­ly pulled away ag­gres­sive­ly.

Say­ing that he was not go­ing any­where, the man re­port­ed­ly cuffed the of­fi­cer on his shoul­der and grabbed on to the neck area of the of­fi­cer's T-shirt and his gold chain.  He is said to have ripped the of­fi­cer’s jer­sey (val­ued at $200) and burst the chain (val­ued at $2,500) in three places.

While try­ing to help his col­league, PC Daly was hit by the man on his left wrist.  

Even­tu­al­ly, the man was sub­dued and tak­en to the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion where he was ex­pect­ed to be charged with as­sault­ing PC Her­alal and PC Daly to pre­vent his ar­rest, as well as ma­li­cious dam­age to PC Heer­alal's teeshirt and a Span­ish link gold chain.

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