CRIME | Four men assaulted police officer on CNY eve

Four local men assaulted a police officer on the night of February 8 in the parking lot of the Jardim das Artes.
According to a statement by the Public Security Police Force (PSP), an officer witnessed a car speeding along Avenida da Amizade in reverse. The car was headed to the parking lot entrance, where the officer intercepted the driver and demanded his personal identification and driving license. The driver fled into the car park, where the officer followed him on foot.
While searching the car park for the suspect, the officer was intercepted by two other men, and was assaulted while calling for assistance.
A fourth man named Chan appeared and joined the driver Kuan and the two other men named Tse and Hong at the scene.
Visibly under the effects of alcohol, Kuan kicked the police officer and then the police patrol car which had arrived to offer backup. Chan and the other two men continued to insult and use offensive language toward the police officers.
The police officers managed to detain the four men, sending Chan and Kuan to the public hospital for blood alcohol tests.
While Chan’s blood alcohol content was found to be under the limit, Kuan’s reading reached 2.68 grams of alcohol per liter.
The four men were brought before the Macau Public Prosecutors Office where they were accused of several offenses including criminal intimidation, resisting arrest, aggravated assault causing bodily harm, violation of road traffic rules, drink driving and aggravated disobedience to authority.
This case was but one of several cases involving either violence or anger directed towards police officers to be reported by the PSP in the days before the Chinese New Year.
In a separate reported case, a 26-year-old man was detained and accused of “abuse of person unable to resist.”
The complaint was filed by the parents of a 16-year-old girl after finding the man sleeping in the alleged victim’s bed after a night of entertainment in a karaoke bar in the NAPE area.
According to the information provided by the PJ, the girl was drunk and the man (said to be a friend of the victim) offered to take her home, only to be found at 8 a.m. on February 1 in her bed, leading the parents to call the police.
The man was not taken into custody at the time but was subsequently arrested on January 10 while attempting to cross the border into the mainland.
Although the suspect denies the charges, the PJ stated that “there is sufficient evidence [to prosecute].” No further details about the case have been made available.