Sigin Koang: Woman bites Creswick police officer, chews up bank card

A woman who harassed customers at a west Victorian post office proceeded to bite into the forearm of the police officer who tried to restrain her.

A woman bit a police officer’s forearm “down to the bone” when she tried to escort her out of a west Victorian post office.

Sigin Koang, 21, appeared virtually in Ballarat County Court on December 1.

Court documents reveal Koang, who was unemployed, stole a broom from the front porch of a Mount Clear home on January 7, 2022.

Later, at 11.05am on February 22, Koang entered Olicartia Store, a gift shop in Creswick.

She took a $20 scarf from a mannequin near the front door, put it around her own neck, and left without paying for it.

Koang then went to the Creswick Post Office and began to speak “loudly” and in “incoherent sentences” at an elderly woman in line.

A uniformed police officer — who happened to also be in the post office — asked Koang to leave.

But Koang continued to “verbally harass” the elderly woman, who was “visibly uncomfortable and scared of the accused”, documents said.

The female officer tried to take Koang out of the building, but she resisted, knocking items off shelves.

She was removed from the premises twice after “wrestling” with the officer inside the post office.

When the officer took a mobile phone call from a colleague checking on her welfare, Koang ran back inside.

When the officer then tried to restrain her, Koang bit her left forearm, “clamping down on a large area of skin” and “biting down into the bone”.

She bit down harder when the officer yelled at her to stop.

The officer was forced to hit Koang over the head with her phone until she unclamped her teeth.

Koang then took the officer’s bank card – which had fallen onto the floor earlier – and began chewing it.

Throughout the incident, frightened customers were evacuated through a rear door.

Koang was arrested and deemed unfit for interview at Ballarat Police Station.

Koang pleaded guilty to two charges of theft, recklessly causing injury, and resisting a police officer.

The case will continue at a later date.