Driver assaults police and hospital security after crashing car
CANTON OH June 24 2020 A driver was behind bars over the weekend, accused of crashing her car into a vacant building, slipping her handcuffs and grabbing her arresting officer in the groin and later kicking a hospital security guard in the chest, according to police.
According to Stark County Jail records, Canton Police arrested Justice L. Jackson, 24, of Gem Court NW, and her 29-year-old passenger around at 1 a.m. Sunday at the crash site in the 2200 block of Seventh Street NE.
Lt. Dennis Garren, police spokesman, said officers called 1:04 a.m. Sunday smelled an alcoholic beverage coming from the vehicle and the driver.
When the officer told her she was going to be arrested for suspicion of driving while impaired, she grabbed his groin area and began to squeeze, Garren said. The officer was able to remove Jackson, place her into handcuffs and into the back of a police cruiser.
Officers called for medic units because of a bloody lip they believe she suffered in the crash and her passenger’s head injury. Garren said the passenger had a head injury from banging his head on the cruiser partition.
Garren said that officers moving Jackson to the ambulance found that she had removed her handcuffs. Jackson was cuffed again and taken to the hospital where she is accused of kicking a hospital security officer in the chest and arm, causing injuries.
After she and her passenger were treated, each was booked into the county jail.
Jackson was jailed on charges of assault, felony escape and felony gross sexual imposition, and remained behind bars Monday, held in lieu of $26,000 bond.
Her passenger, who lives on Sixth Street NW, was jailed on a misdemeanor warrant charging him with failure to appear for supervised community service. The Canton Repository does not typically name misdemeanor crime suspects.
He remained in jail Monday, held without bond pending court hearings.
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