KINGMAN – Kingman police were met with hostility when they responded to a report of an unruly subject early Sunday, April 7. Deputy Police Chief Joel Freed said officers were dispatched at 4:15 a.m. to a business that trespassed a man from the property in the 4000 block of North Stockton Hill Rd.
Freed said arriving officers spotted a vagrant later identified as Nathaniel Edsinga in front of another business.
“When they attempted to take him into custody he began to actively resist arrest,” Freed said. “Edsinga was able to strike an officer in the nose prior to being restrained.”
Freed said one of the officers sustained minor injuries and that Edsinga was discovered to be in possession of dangerous drugs and drug paraphernalia. He was booked into the Mohave County Adult Detention Center for aggravated assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest and drug related charges.
Dave Hawkins
