Crime & Safety
Long Island Officer Assaulted Responding To Elmont Domestic Dispute: Police
The officer was called to the home after the man placed residents in fear for their safety, police said.
ELMONT, NY — An officer was injured in a scuffle with an Elmont man he was trying to arrest in connection with a domestic dispute at a home on Saturday afternoon, Nassau police said.
Police were called to a home after an argument between John Rogers, 27, and a woman became escalated with his damaging property and causing people inside "to fear for their safety," said police, adding that an eight-year-old boy was present.
Rogers was asked by an officer to leave the home but he refused, becoming "violent and combative," police said. The officer was taken to a local area hospital for treatment of his injuries, according to police.
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Details of his injuries were not released.
Rogers is charged with second-degree assault and obstructing governmental administration, and attempted criminal contempt, as well as resisting arrest, and endangering the welfare of a child.
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He has been scheduled for arraignment on Monday in First District Court in Hempstead.
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