When the two Glassboro police officers attempted to take a man into custody, he resisted and both officers were slightly injured.
GLASSBORO -- Two borough police officers suffered minor injuries early Sunday morning after a man resisted being taken into custody, authorities said.
Two Glassboro police officers were injured early Sunday morning as they took a man into custody. (Glassboro PD) The incident began around 12:36 a.m. when Glassboro Police Department Ptl. Matt Teyssier and Cpl. Rick Watt were conducting additional patrols in the area of Whitney Avenue and West High Street.
Teyssier saw a person, later identified as Alexander Soviero, 21, of Little Silver, with an open container of an alcoholic beverage, according to police.
Soviero was stopped and issued a summons on a borough ordinance for the open container. After being served with the summons and released at the scene, Soviero walked away from the officers and threw an empty plastic cup he was holding on the ground.
He was then seen by the officers, police said, walking onto a property on Whitney Avenue and was seen standing in some bushes located at the front of the property.
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Teyssier and Watt approached Soviero as he was walking out of the bushes and attempted to stop him, but he refused to comply with officers' verbal commands, authorities said. After walking a short distance, Soviero finally stopped, but he again refused to comply with the officers' verbal commands so he was advised he was under arrest. Soviero pulled away from officers as they attempted to handcuff him, but after a brief struggle he was taken into custody, police said.
During the course of the arrest, Teyssier sustained some minor cuts to his hands and Watt received a minor injury to his finger, police said.
They were treated at Kennedy University Hospital in Washington Township and released.
Soviero was charged with obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, littering, possessing an open container of alcohol in public and urinating in public.
He was taken to the Salem County correctional Facility, Mannington Township, on $2,500 bail.
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