Homeless Man Accused Of Injuring Santa Rosa Officers

SANTA ROSA, CA -- Two officers were attacked and injured by a transient when they tried to get him to leave the parking lot at Santa Rosa Junior College late Thursday night, police said.

Robert Thresh, 56, a transient Santa Rosa resident, was arrested and booked into the county jail on suspicion of possession of a fixed-blade knife on a school campus and resisting arrest, according to Santa Rosa Junior
College District police.

The officers first approached Thresh at 6 p.m. when they saw his car illegally parked in a disabled parking spot on Burbank Circle on the junior college campus, police said.

Thresh said he was repairing the car and would move it soon, so the officers allowed him to do so. However, when one of the officers returned at 8:30 p.m., he found Thresh sleeping in the car, police said. Thresh
promised to fix the car and leave.

At 11:15 p.m., officers again found Thresh sleeping in the car, and told him the campus was closed and he had to leave. Thresh became angry and uncooperative, police said.

When speaking with Thresh, an officer saw a large fixed-blade knife under the driver's seat and ordered him to get out of the car, according to police.

Thresh refused to leave the car and when the officers tried to remove him, he attacked and kicked them, police said.

After a brief struggle, three district officers subdued Thresh and arrested him, according to police.

Two district officers suffered minor injuries and one of them was treated at an emergency room and released. The suspect suffered some minor cuts and scrapes and was medically cleared before being booked into jail,
police said.

Anyone with additional information about the incident can call the Santa Rosa Junior College District Police at (707) 527-1000.

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