The Sap of Crotone expresses its applause and recognition to colleagues of the flying squad of the local General Prevention and Public Aid Office of Crotone for “the exceptional work demonstrated during a recent intervention” that he saw the arrest of a 44 year old man from Crotonefor the crimes of resistance and violence against a public official, personal injury, threats and illegal carrying of weapons (HERE).
“The operators – remember the acronym in a note – they intervened promptly following a call to the emergency number 112, in which the applicant reported that his brother, in a strong state of agitation, was turning the apartment upside down and threatening the applicant and his mother with death with a knife “.
Once on site, agents have the applicant and his mother were traced hidden in a car at a safe distance from the home. They then identified the reported subject near the front door.
At the sight of the policemen, however, the individual lashed out at them brandishing one hedge shears and a kitchen knife of large dimensions.
Despite the man’s repeated attempts to hit the officers, one of whom suffered a wrist traumaoperators maintained the calm el’operationfinally recurring to the use of the Taser, the electric pulse gun, to block and disarm the attacker.
