{"id":218544,"date":"2010-01-12T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T23:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5fcf53ef0120a7cb2330970b"},"modified":"2010-01-12T18:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T23:50:36","slug":"narcotic-suspect-fights-with-officers-before-being-taken-into-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218544","title":{"rendered":"Narcotic Suspect Fights with Officers before Being Taken Into Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles:<\/em><\/strong> A suspect attempting to elude officers became involved in an altercation with them, resulting in a Law Enforcement Related Injury (LERI).\u00a0 <\/p>\n

On January 9, 2010, at around 10:05 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Metropolitan Division Police Officers were working crime suppression in LAPD’s Newton Area.\u00a0 Two Officers were driving a marked police vehicle north on Holmes Avenue and were approaching 54th Street in the "Pueblo Del Rio" public housing project.\u00a0 The Officers saw a suspect, later identified as Lorenzo Leggett, who they believed was engaged in the sales of narcotics.<\/p>\n

Both Officers got out of their vehicles to detain Leggett for investigation of a narcotics violation. Legget immediately led the Officers in a foot pursuit. The officers caught up to Leggett near the intersection of Long Beach Avenue and 54th Street.\u00a0 Leggett began fighting with the officers and two additional Metropolitan Officers arrived for back up.\u00a0 One of the Officers used a Taser to help subdue the combative Leggett.\u00a0 Legget was then taken into custody without any further incident.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Leggett was transported to a local hospital for facial and head contusion and abrasions. He is in stable condition and booked for Assault with Deadly Weapon on Police Officers.\u00a0 He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n

One of the Metropolitan Officers was also transported to a local hospital and treated for head trauma and multiple abrasions. He was treated and released.\u00a0 No other officers were injured during this incident.<\/p>\n

Force Investigation Division is handling the crime against the officers. Calls may be directed to Media Relations Section at 213-486-5910.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles: A suspect attempting to elude officers became involved in an altercation with them, resulting in a Law Enforcement Related Injury (LERI).\u00a0 On January 9, 2010, at around 10:05 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Metropolitan Division Police Officers were working crime suppression in LAPD’s Newton Area.\u00a0 Two Officers were driving a marked police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}