Two police officers have been assaulted, with one suffering head injuries, after pursuing three people suspected of stealing a “significant amount of meat” in Ballymena.
Responding to a report of the theft from a store in the Richmond Park area at around 6pm on Thursday, the officers pursued a 40-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman before detaining them.
One officer was “struck in the face several times by the woman”, and the same officer had a clump of hair pulled out and suffered an injury to her ear and cuts to her head.
The second officer was pushed several times and threatened by the man.
Both individuals were arrested for assault on police, theft, and disorderly behaviour.
A second man aged 40, was also arrested for theft.
The trio remained in police custody on Friday.
