OPP officers assaulted, injured during arrest of unwanted Hamilton person

A Hamilton man is facing a long list of charges after two OPP officers were allegedly assaulted in Caledonia.

Police were called just before 7 a.m. Tuesday to investigate an unwanted person complaint at a home on Thistlemoor Drive.

Police say they found a man who they allege had consumed alcohol and suspected illicit drugs and refused to comply with officers’ commands.

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Officers Tasered the man, but while they tried to arrest him, two officers suffered minor injuries.

The suspect was taken to hospital as a precaution, while one officer was treated at the scene for their injury. The other was treated in hospital and released.

Thirty-year-old Enea Skenderaj of Hamilton has been charged with two counts of assaulting a peace officer, two counts of failing to comply with a probation order, resisting arrest and possession of a controlled substance.

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