A town woman is facing charges for allegedly headbutting and kicking a police officer when he tried stopping her from destroying drugs in her possession.
A Hackettstown woman is facing charges for allegedly headbutting and kicking a police officer when he tried stopping her from destroying drugs in her possession. HACKETTSTOWN -- A town woman is facing charges for allegedly headbutting and kicking a police officer when he tried stopping her from destroying drugs in her possession.
Christine Aponte, 53, of Hackettstown, has been charged with aggravated assault on police, hindering apprehension, tampering with evidence, possession of oxycodone and possession of drug paraphernalia, Hackettstown police Sgt. Darren Tynan said in a news release.
Police responded to the 100 block of West Plane Street at 7:21 p.m. Thursday to serve Aponte with a wanted person warrant issued by the Warren County Prosecutor's Office on a drug charge, Tynan said.
While officers were with Aponte, they determined that she had a bottle filled with pills in her bra, he said. She then tried to place the pills in her mouth and attempted to crush the bills in her hand and under her feet, Tynan said.
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It was while Aponte was trying to destroy evidence and the officer was attempting to place her under arrest that she headbutted the officer on the right side of his face and kicked him in the knee, he said.
After she was arrested, Aponte was found to be possession of 16 green Oxycodone pills and two plastic straws with residue of suspected controlled dangerous substance inside them, Tynan said.
Aponte was remanded to jail after she was unable to post $7,500 bail on the Hackettstown charges and the prosecutor's warrant, he said.
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