Police: Mount Kisco man bites trooper who stopped him for doing 100 mph

By TERENCE CORCORAN
THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original publication: September 25, 2007)

NORTH SALEM - A Mount Kisco man bit a state trooper on the hand when the trooper stopped him for doing 100 miles per hour on Interstate 684, state police said.

Jose Manuel Arias, whom police described as a 25-year-old illegal immigrant, is being held at the Westchester County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail pending his appearance Friday in North Salem Court.

Troopers Robert Lombardi and Christopher Esposito of the Brewster barracks were patrolling I-684 around 2:10 a.m. yesterday when they stopped a vehicle for doing 100 mph in the 65-mph zone, police said.

They determined that the driver, Arias, was under the influence of alcohol and drugs, police said.

As the troopers were placing him under arrest, he struck both of them, refused all orders to comply, then bit Lombardi on the left hand and forearm, causing bleeding and swelling. police said.

Several troopers from the Somers and Brewster barracks responded to help subdue Arias.

Lombardi was treated at Putnam Hospital Center and released.

Arias faces a felony charge of second-degree assault on a police officer, misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired by drugs, as well as numerous violations of the vehicle and traffic law, police said.

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Just as I knew along. Many of the illegals are drunken animals.