Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

In a bizarre in­ci­dent yes­ter­day, a man who was ar­rest­ed by po­lice smashed the win­dow of a po­lice ve­hi­cle with his head fol­low­ing a vi­o­lent fra­cas with of­fi­cers in Pe­nal and then pro­ceed­ed to chew the bro­ken glass.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 2 am af­ter four of­fi­cers from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to a re­port of a breach of a pro­tec­tion or­der and death threats at Beemul Branch Trace, San Fran­cique Road, Pe­nal.

When they ar­rived, po­lice said, the sus­pect was wield­ing a cut­lass and threat­en­ing to kill his neigh­bours—who are re­lat­ed to him—and burn down their home.

Po­lice said the vic­tims had been grant­ed a pro­tec­tion or­der against the sus­pect some time ago, and they al­so have an on­go­ing ar­son mat­ter be­fore the court. They told po­lice that the 36-year-old man threw gaso­line on their home and at­tempt­ed to set it on fire. The of­fi­cers at­tempt­ed to ar­rest the sus­pect who re­sist­ed, and a strug­gle en­sued.

Dur­ing the fight, the sus­pect struck one of the of­fi­cers sev­er­al times and re­peat­ed­ly spat on an­oth­er one. He was even­tu­al­ly sub­dued, ar­rest­ed, hand­cuffed, and placed in the rear seat of the po­lice ve­hi­cle.

Po­lice said the sus­pect then head­butted the win­dow, caus­ing it to shat­ter, and be­gan bit­ing shards of glass and chew­ing them.

The sus­pect and one of the of­fi­cers were treat­ed at the Siparia Health Fa­cil­i­ty and dis­charged.

Po­lice said the sus­pect is ex­pect­ed to be charged with sev­er­al of­fences.