The 53-year-old Hackettstown woman is jailed in lieu of $7,500 bail, police say.
A Hackettstown woman head-butted and kicked a town police officer as a warrant was being served Thursday night, according to a news release.
Christine Aponte, 53, had a bottle filled with pills in her bra when an officer arrived just after 7:20 in the 100 block of West Plane Street to serve a warrant on a previous drug charge, police said.
Aponte tried to put pills in her month and crush them with her hands and feet, police said.
As the officer attempted to arrest her, Aponte head-butted him and kicked him in the knee, police said.
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Aponte was also in possession of 16 Oxycodone pills and two plastic straws, which had suspected drug residue within them, police said.
She was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, hindering, tampering with evidence and possession of Oxycodone and drug paraphernalia, police said.
Bail was set at $7,500 and she was sent to Warren County jail on the drug warrant and the charges pertaining to her arrest, police said.
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