Two police officers were injured Friday morning while they attempted to detain a knife-wielding man who was allegedly assaulting a woman in Woodbury, authorities said.
Officers from the Woodbury Police Department were called to a home on Glover Street for a report of a disturbance and when they arrived they witnessed an assault happening, according to a statement from the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office. Two Woodbury officers were injured as they attempted to arrest the man and he resisted, officials said.
Woodbury Heights and West Deptford police officers responded and assisted in taking the man, identified Friday afternoon as Ilyas K. Ahmad, 34, of Camden, into custody, the office said.
The two officers injured in the arrest, as well as Ahmad, were transported to Inspira Hospital in Mullica Hill for treatment, investigators said. All have since been released. More details on the nature of their injuries were not immediately available.
Ahmad was charged with criminal attempted murder on law enforcement, resisting arrest with injury, attempting to disarm police, terroristic threats, aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated assault on police and multiple weapons-related offenses, the office said.
Ahmad was processed and then lodged in the Salem County Correctional Facility pending further proceedings.
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