SANTA CRUZ — Two officers with the Santa Cruz Police Department were sent to the hospital Thursday after a confrontation with an individual in the downtown area.
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Police department spokesperson Katie Lee wrote in an email to the Sentinel that officers responded to reports of a man in an altered state allegedly committing battery on an unknown person that was witnessed by people in the Santa Cruz area. Officers located the man on the 1100 block of Pacific Avenue, but he was reportedly combative and noncompliant and became violently resistant as he was being taken into custody. Lee was unable to approximate what time the incident occurred.
Two officers were injured in the confrontation but were treated at Dominican Hospital and released Thursday night.
Because the situation is the subject of an ongoing investigation, Lee wrote that there was no other information that could be shared as of Monday.
