Crime & Safety

Transient Bites Officer in Scuffle near Laemmle NoHo Theater

Another officer gets a taser jolt. Two sent to the hospital.

One North Hollywood police officer was bitten and one officer got a taser jolt while trying to subdue a man found lying in the middle of a busy street causing cars to swerve around him, a lieutenant said today.

The officers were called to the Laemmle Noho 7 movie theater at 5240 Lankershim Blvd. at about 10 p.m. Sunday on a report of a man disturbing patrons, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Albert Gavin.

When they arrived, they found the man who appeared to be a transient lying "in the middle of traffic," on Lankershim Boulevard and vehicles swerving to avoid hitting him, Gavin said.

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The man resisted officers' efforts to arrest him and was so combative that officers attempted multiple times to use a taser to subdue him, Gavin said.

The suspect bit an officer and another officer got a jolt from the taser, the lieutenant said.

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The suspect then stopped breathing and CPR was used to restore it, Gavin said. The suspect and the bitten officer were taken to hospitals for treatment.

--City News Service


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