2 Hercules Police Officers Injured in Scuffle With Suspect

HERCULES - An out-of-state man with an outstanding warrant for his arrest scuffled with Hercules police officers and caused two to suffer minor injuries while being taken into custody Friday morning, police said.

The incident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, when an officer stopped a Mercedes-Benz for a vehicle code violation in Hercules, according to police. During the traffic stop, a man in the front passenger seat failed to produce identification - first saying he had a California, and then a Texas, driver’s license.

After he could not be identified through records checks, an officer ran his fingerprint. Police said he was identified as 25-year-old Vincent Lewis Harris. The man had a U.S. Marshals Service arrest warrant out of Arlington County in Virginia, according to police.

While being taken into custody, Lewis started to fight the officers, according to police. He allegedly resisted the officers as they attempted to put him in the patrol car. Two officers suffered wrist and hand injuries during the scuffle.

Lewis was eventually secured, and was arrested on suspicion of giving false information to a police officer and resisting arrest on top of the warrant. He was booked into Martinez Detention Facility.

--Bay City News; Photo by Renee Schiavone, Patch