Samuel Wilson pleads guilty to drunkenly assaulting two police officers at Ballina in northern NSW
A dishevelled boozer assaulted two police after being kicked out of a beachside RSL and causing a scene in the centre of a Northern Rivers town.
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A dishevelled boozer assaulted two police officers after being kicked out of Ballina RSL and causing a scene in the centre of town.
Samuel Maclachlan Wilson fronted Ballina Local Court on Thursday, where he admitted to his drunken offending on June 28.
The 30-year-old Ballina local pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting police, resisting police, behaving in an offensive manner in public and refusing to identify himself.
Documents tendered in court state Wilson was asked to leave Ballina RSL shortly before it closed at midnight.
Wilson walked down the road to a Shell petrol station where he began yanking pumps out of the bowsers and spilling petrol on the ground.
RSL staff called police who arrived to find Wilson intoxicated, shirtless and dishevelled.
Documents state Wilson was slurring his speech, was unbalanced and shouted “f--k” several times.
Wilson refused to tell officers his name and they had to force him into the back of a police car.
Documents state Wilson tensed his body, grabbed an officer’s vest and wrapped his legs around the policeman’s waist.
Wilson was quelled by capsicum spray, causing him to let go of the officer, who hurt his back in the struggle. Another officer received a small cut on his hand.
Wilson was taken to Ballina Police Station, where he refused to exit the car and attempted to throw his work boot at an officer.
Documents state police went to remove him from the vehicle about an hour later, however, he grabbed an officer’s leg and two others were required to force him into a cell.
Magistrate Karen Stafford ordered a sentencing assessment report to be prepared before adjourning the case to October, when Wilson will be sentenced.
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