CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Two Clearlake Police officers were injured earlier this month during a confrontation with a Clearlake Park man.

Shehab Ammar, 20, is alleged to have injured the officers, according to Sgt. Nick Bennett.

Bennett said that at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, March 15, Clearlake Police officers responded to the area of 37th and Phillips avenues on a report of a person acting strangely, punching parked and moving vehicles.

When officers arrived in the area a person matching the description began running away from them, Bennett said. He was later observed standing in the roadway on 40th Avenue blocking traffic. When approached the individual ran again.

Bennett said officers were finally able to catch up with the individual – identified as Ammar – in the 4000 block of Eureka Avenue where he suddenly turned on Officer Andy Adams without warning and violently assaulted him.  

Other officers arrived on the scene and attempted to subdue Ammar. A Taser was deployed without effect and a police K-9 was also utilized, also without effect. Officers were finally able to subdue Ammar and take him into custody, Bennett said.

Two of the officers involved in the arrest were injured and placed on injury leave, Bennett said.

Ammar also was injured during the incident and taken to St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake and later Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment, according to Bennett.

Bennett said a warrant for Ammar's arrest was sought by Clearlake Police Department and upon the release from the hospital he was taken into custody.

The charges on the arrest warrant were resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and causing harm to a police dog, Bennett said.

Ammar, listed as a care provider, was booked into the Lake County Jail on Monday. His bail is set at $45,000.