Tag: assaulting police

Burglary suspect charged over GT break-ins

Burglary suspect charged over GT break-ins

| 12/09/2023

(CNS): A 42-year-old man from George Town has been charged with two counts of burglary and was expected in court Tuesday. The police found about two and a half pounds of ganja in his possession when he was picked up in West Bay on Saturday, so he is also likely to be charged with drug […]

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Young adult accused of assaulting off-duty cop

Young adult accused of assaulting off-duty cop

| 13/01/2023

(CNS): A 19-year-old man from Bodden Town has now been charged with Assault ABH, Assaulting Police, and Theft following his arrest last week after an altercation with a police officer, who was in full uniform but off duty. The young adult who was due in court Monday is accused of approaching and threatening the officer […]

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Beat officer assaulted on George Town street

Beat officer assaulted on George Town street

| 08/12/2021

(CNS) A police officer on foot patrol on Shedden Road, George Town, was assaulted on Tuesday. A man approached the officer and his partner in an aggressive way, assaulted the officer and then fled towards Mary Street. A police spokesperson said that additional officers were called to assist and the 32-year-old George Town man was […]

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Cops TASER unruly passenger at traffic stop

Cops TASER unruly passenger at traffic stop

| 25/11/2021

(CNS): Police at a traffic checkpoint in Bodden Town Monday night, shot a 21-year-old man with a stun gun while he was sitting in the passenger seat of a car pulled over by the officers. The man has been arrested for disorderly conduct, obstructing police, resisting arrest, and assaulting police. According to the RCIPS, the […]

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Newball charged with list of crimes

Newball charged with list of crimes

| 29/06/2020

(CNS): Simon Julio Newball (44) from George Town has been charged with a long list of crimes after being on the run from the law for a month. He was apprehended on Thursday and again resisted arrest more than four weeks after he had previously escaped the police, when he used pepper spray on officers […]

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Cops pepper spray driver resisting arrest

Cops pepper spray driver resisting arrest

| 04/09/2019

(CNS): A 23-year-old man involved in a single-vehicle crash near the Yacht Club Roundabout early Sunday morning was pepper sprayed by the police after he resisted arrest for drinking and driving. The RCIPS said that one of the police officers received minor injuries during the struggle, and both he and the driver were treated at […]

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Suspect believed high on crack assaulted police

Suspect believed high on crack assaulted police

| 30/08/2019

(CNS): A 26-year-old man from West Bay who was arrested in George Town early Friday morning on suspicion of taking crack cocaine assaulted one of the arresting officers, breaking one of his fingers in the scuffle, the RCIPS said in a release. Police said that the officers, who were on patrol near Harbour Drive just […]

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Two cops assaulted in scuffle with driver

Two cops assaulted in scuffle with driver

| 15/08/2019

(CNS): A driver was arrested for resisting arrest and assaulting police after an incident that began when a wheel fell off his car right outside the Bodden Town Police Station. The RCIPS said that during the scuffle as the 20-year-old man resisted arrest, one of the officer’s fingers was broken and his arm was cut, […]

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Cops pepper spray drunk woman

Cops pepper spray drunk woman

| 19/06/2019 | 16 Comments

(CNS): Police officers on Cayman Brac deployed pepper spray on a 23-year-old woman, who “appeared to be highly intoxicated”, at a bar on Watering Place Road Tuesday evening after she assaulted the officers who responded to a report that her bag had been stolen. At around 8pm the police went to La Esperanza bar because […]

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Cops assaulted during GT arrest

Cops assaulted during GT arrest

| 27/05/2019

(CNS): Two Royal Cayman Island Police Service officers ended up in hospital Monday after they arrested a 19-year-old man who then became verbally and physically aggressive towards the officers and resisted arrest. During the struggle a watch that one of the officers was wearing was damaged and both officers received non-life-threatening-injuries. The police officers were […]

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Badly injured cop sues RCIPS bosses

Badly injured cop sues RCIPS bosses

| 11/03/2019 | 25 Comments

(CNS): A police officer who sustained a fractured skull while on duty and who is still struggling with a catalog of mental and physical health problems six years later is suing the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, as he says they were negligent in their failure to provide him with protective headgear. Police Constable Fitzroy […]

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