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A 47 year-old man has been arrested and charged with assaulting emergency workers and theft following an incident on Commercial Road in Portsmouth.
We were called just before 6:30pm on Wednesday 24 July to the Tesco store on Commercial Road, Portsmouth, to reports that a man had assaulted three members of the public and then left the store with stolen items.
Officers attended and located the man who, whilst resisting arrest, injured three police officers.
Whilst officers attended to this matter, a woman reportedly approached an officer and hit them.
One officer was treated at the scene for facial injuries and received further hospital treatment. The other officers did not require hospital treatment.
Sonny Dean Towner, 47, from Portsmouth was subsequently arrested and charged with three counts of assaulting an emergency worker and theft from a shop. He is due to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates Court today (Friday 26 July).
A 50 year-old woman from Portsmouth was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker and using words to cause racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress. She has been bailed until Friday 20 September whilst enquiries continue to establish what happened.