Mother bites Dubai cop who came to arrest son

Dubai - The man asked his family to intervene and help him.

A woman, 45, and her son. 22, are on trial at the Dubai Court of First Instance for assaulting on-duty Dubai police officers.
 
The court heard the case, registered in Al Rashidiya Police Station, detailing how anti-narcotics officers went to a villa in Al Warqa in September 2019 with a warrant to search and arrest a suspected Emirati drug addict.
 
"After a domestic violence incident was reported at a villa in Al Warqa, I went with a colleague there. A police patrol car was already on the scene. The person who had made the call, told us that his brother- in- law (the defendant) had assaulted him," a policeman said.
 
The defendant was found smoking outside the villa. 
 
"I approached him and showed him my ID. He would not pay heed to my order to get inside the patrol car. He would not let us handcuff him either. But he verbally abused us and kept asking his two sisters, his mother, grandfather and father to intervene and help him," the officer told the public prosecution investigator.
"The defendant's mother then got involved and bit my left arm to stop us from handcuffing her son. I had to pull my hand out of her mouth. We then brought her son under control and took him to the anti-narcotics general directorate."
Another police patrol car with female officers was sent later to apprehend the mother.
 
Another police officer said that the person who called the police told them that the defendant was destroying the villa furniture and was trying to hurt members of the family. The complainant was also apparently injured after he got beaten by the defendant. 
The son's urine sample tested positive for drugs, as shown in the crime lab report.
The mother is out on bail, and the trial is set to continue on March 1 2020.

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