Police officer left with broken ribs after alleged assault during arrest

Police officer left with broken ribs after alleged assault during arrest

A senior constable suffers two broken ribs after alleged assault during arrest of a 37-year-old man at Orange Police Station on July 4. 2025.

Grand jury votes against aggravated assault on police officer charge

By Joe Johnson A grand jury has declined to indict a man who was accused of assaulting an officer after cutting his wrist in an apparent attempted suicide.Grand jurors instead indicted 30-year-old Tommy Lee Orr on a charge of making a false statement for telling the officer that he had a gun when he did not.Orr was arrested on March 5th during an incident that happened in the parking of Microtel Inn & Suites on Ultimate Drive.His mother had call…

Argument on Cookstown Road Leads to Assault on Police Officer

A man who refused orders by police to quit following a woman who had bought him a few beers at a bar in an effort to get away from him is in the lockup after getting into a scrap with the officers. The man and woman were in a verbal altercation in the area of Cookstown Road at about 9:00 last night but when she tried to walk away, he insisted on following. RNC told him to do otherwise, but instead he decided to take a swing at an officer with cl…