BOYNTON BEACH, FL - An arrest got out of hand Thursday night at Sara Simms Park when friends of the suspect attacked officers verbally and physically, police said. One officer broke his wrist in the struggle.
According to police:
Police were on foot patrol about 7 p.m. in the 200 block of Northwest Ninth Court, when they saw a 17-year-old try to toss away nine bags of marijuana. As the teen was being put in the patrol car, the crowd grew hostile.
Joshua Kelley, 18, told officers he'd beat them up, but he ran away when officers approached. Kelley was caught, but he put up a fight, during which another man, Barkavius McCray, 19, approached and began shouting obscenities, ignoring officers' orders to back away. Instead, McCray swung at Officer Connor Haugh. During the fight, Haugh, 26, broke his wrist.
Several arrests were made during the melee:
Kelley was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence; McCray was charged with resisting arrest with violence and resisting arrest without violence; James Allen, 49, who was allegedly encouraging the crowd, was arrested for inciting a riot; and Calvin Carpenter, 39, was arrested for resisting arrest without violence "when his actions caused officers to focus their attention on him instead of the subjects they already had in custody," the police report said.
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