A man will appear in court on Wednesday, after allegedly biting a police officer near Maitland yesterday.
About 3.45pm on Tuesday 19th May, officers stopped a man on Thursby Street, Tenambit, and observed him holding something in the front of his jumper.
When police asked him to show them what he was holding, the man was observed placing a small plastic bag into his mouth before chewing it, swallowing it and attempting to leave the scene.
The 38-year-old man was arrested when he allegedly became violent, resisting police and biting one Senior Constable on his right arm, who was taken to Maitland Hospital for treatment.
The man was taken to Maitland Police Station and charged with resisting or hindering a police officer in the execution of duty, two counts of resisting an officer in execution of duty, assaulting a police officer in execution of duty cause actual bodily harm, and not wearing an approved bicycle helmet/fitted/fastened.
He was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court today.
