A Greensburg man is accused of fighting with city police, spitting on three officers and making threats as he was taken into custody early Thursday after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend.
Malik M. Crosby, 22, was arraigned on four counts each of harassment and simple assault by a prisoner and single counts of aggravated assault, aggravated harassment by a prisoner and resisting arrest. He is being held in the county jail on $50,000 bond.
Officer Adam Gogets reported police were called at 1 a.m. to Crosby’s girlfriend’s apartment on the 700 block of Eastmont Drive where they were met outside by a woman holding a young child “who were both hysterical.”
Gogets reported the woman’s face was swollen and she had a black eye.
The woman told police that an intoxicated Crosby was dropped off at her home and they got into an argument, when he repeatedly punched her and then fled. Police said she required medical attention.
Officers located Crosby “looking out the window” of a nearby apartment as they spoke to the woman and they went to question him.
“Crosby was irate and continually threatened to spit on officers,” Gogets wrote in court documents.
Police say as they placed him in handcuffs and began leading him to the patrol car he spit on one officer, began resisting and had to be taken to the ground to be secured.
Officers placed him in the car, but once they arrived at the station, police said he spit at officers.
As an officer took off Crosby’s handcuffs to put him in a holding cell, he punched an officer in the face, Gogets said. He was restrained again and began spitting on police.
Crosby’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for later this month.
