Greensborough: Mark Fabbri fights police after being caught with ice
A man sleeping off an ice binge in a car was startled when he was woken by police in Greensborough and decided to take on the long arm of the law. But it didn’t end well for the shocked truckie.
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A truck driver had to be wrestled to the ground and capsicum sprayed after he took on police when they tried to arrest him for having ice in his car.
Mark Fabbri, 43, was asleep in a Ford Focus parked in a carpark behind Main Rd, Greensborough about 3.20am on March 18 when police woke him, having seen a small bag they believed to be ice inside the car, Heidelberg Magistrates Court heard.
The court heard police tried to arrest Fabbri once he was out of the car, but he refused to place his hands behind him and fought to get back inside.
He broke free of the officers’ grip and “squared up” in the doorway of the car, the court heard.
The police warned him he would be sprayed, but “he continued to threaten the safety of police”, according to the prosecution.
He tried to run once he was sprayed, and was tackled to the ground, where he continued to fight for some time, the court heard.
Fabbri, who was on bail at the time, was held in custody until he went before court yesterday afternoon.
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The court heard he had been shocked by being woken and was under the influence of ice at the time of the incident, having been using it to cope with the stress of his personal circumstances.
Magistrate Michael McNamara said Fabbri would have been staying in custody if he had done anything more than just resisting the officers.
“The only thing that’s stopping me from sending you to prison is the fact that you did not appear to throw any punches or anything like that,” he told Fabbri.
“We are all sick of emergency workers being treated like this.”
Mr McNamara slapped him with a $2000 fine and told him to do something about his meth problem.