At around 8 p.m., Allenhurst police responded to the 300 block of Main Street after receiving a report of a suspicious person slumped against a building, police said in a news release.
Allenhurst police responded to the 300 block of Main Street after receiving a report of a suspicious person slumped against a building, police said. (File photo). ALLENHURST -- A Bloomfield man was arrested Monday night after he elbowed a cop in the face while trying to run away from him, police said.
At around 8 p.m., Allenhurst police responded to the 300 block of Main Street after receiving a report of a suspicious person slumped against a building, police said in a news release.
When police arrived, the man, later identified as Zechariah Hubbard, 22, of Bloomfield, gave the officer a fake name, police said. The same officer had arrested Hubbard last week, so he was familiar with him, according to police.
The officer then tried to arrest Hubbard, who took off on foot heading south on Main Street. Police said the officer eventually caught up to Hubbard, who started to wrestle with the officer, elbowing him in the face.
Hubbard was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, hindering apprehension and disorderly conduct, police said.
He was taken to the Monmouth County jail in lieu of $12,500 bail with no 10-percent option. Hubbard is also being held on a no-bail warrant out of Essex County.
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