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Police charge man after officers injured during arrest at Tamworth
A man will face court today charged with assaulting two officers during an arrest following a vehicle stop in West Tamworth overnight.
About 8.20pm (Friday 23 July 2021), officers attached to Oxley Police District stopped the driver of a Holden Commodore on Sue Crescent, Tamworth, for the purpose of a random breath test.
Police spoke with the driver, a 19-year-old woman, and subjected her to a roadside breath test which returned a negative result.
Officers also spoke to her passenger, a 19-year-old man, who was in the back seat of the car.