Co Armagh man held onto steering wheel and told police 'You'll have a hard time getting me', court hears
A Co Armagh man who gripped the steering wheel and refused to co-operate with police, was fined a total of £300 with a £15 offender’s levy at Dungannon Magistrates Court on Friday.
Fifty-three-year-old David Andrew Morton from Creeveroe Road, Armagh, admitted charges of obstructing and resisting police on January 3 this year.
The court heard police were on mobile patrol at Moy Road, Dungannon, when checks on a vehicle showed its owner was wanted for two outstanding money warrants.
Prosecuting counsel said they stopped the vehicle and asked Morton about the warrants and he refused to co-operate.
She said he refused to be arrested and gripped the steering wheel saying, “You’ll have a hard time getting me.”
A defence lawyer said it was regrettable that the incident had escalated in the way it had.
He said it was a “gross over reaction” on the part of the defendant. The lawyer added that Morton had paid the outstanding money warrants.