Two Bowling Green police officers were injured while attempting to arrest a man Friday morning. One received a dislocated shoulder that may require surgery later.
Police were trying to serve criminal trespass paperwork about a court date to Andrew J. Hildebrand, 40, of 315 Parkview Drive, where they left the citation on his door.
Police then received phone calls from neighbors on Parkview Drive, reporting that Hildebrand was pounding on one of their doors.
Three officers went to the location, where one of the neighbors showed surveillance video of Hildebrand on her porch pounding on her door that morning. Officers decided they would take him into custody and transport him to the Wood County jail.
When Hildebrand was told he was under arrest, he reportedly got up and ran toward the front door of his trailer. According to the police report, Hildebrand struggled with officers, and was “violently thrashing and grabbing household items and throwing them at officers.”
Once Hildebrand was handcuffed, he stopped resisting and all officers got off of him. A few seconds later an officer sat Hildebrand up and began to talk to him. The officer observed that Hildebrand had scrapes on his legs that were bleeding and some scratches on his head.
Hildebrand was complaining of injury, one police officer reported severe pain to his shoulder and a cut to his forehead where he was struck by an item Hildebrand threw, and another had pain in his forearm. All were treated at Wood County Hospital.
The hospital cleared Hildebrand, and he was charged with felonious assault on an officer, assault on another officer, criminal trespass and resisting arrest, then taken to jail.
