Miami Beach Police Officer Injured During Ocean Drive Arrest

MIAMI BEACH, FL — A Miami Beach police officer was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center for multiple injuries he suffered during a late-night arrest on Wednesday. Officer A. Gonzalez suffered a gash to his forehead, an elbow injury and pain to both knees following the arrest of two North Miami men around 11 p.m. in the 800 block of Ocean Drive.

"The officer was treated and released," Officer Ernesto Rodriguez of the Miami Beach Police Department told Patch.

Police charged Junior Savoir with battery of a police officer, possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest with violence to his person in connection with the injuries to the officer. (Sign up for our free Daily Newsletters and Breaking News Alerts for the Miami Beach Patch.)

The other man, Jairo Jose Medina, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence

According to arrest records, the 36-year-old Savoir and the 26-year-old Medina were sitting along the wall that separates Lumus Park the beach when Gonzalez and another uniformed officer smelled what they believed to be marijuana wafting from the vicinity of the two men.

Police later found a gray plastic container with six bags of cocaine, a bag of rock cocaine, multiple bags of marijuana and four Addarell pills.

One of the officers asked Savoir if he was carrying any marijuana. "At this time the defendant Savoir stated, 'yea. I got some weed in my pocket here.'"

Gonzalez was injured during a subsequent scuffle with Savoir as both officers tried to take him into custody.

"While on the ground defendant Savoir violently threw an elbow strike to officer Gonzalez; forehead causing a gash that bled," according to arrest documents " The other officer got Savoir in a headlock and punched him multiple times during the struggle."

At one point Medina allegedly stood up from the wall, walked up behind the officers and yelled profanities, causing what officers described as an "extremely dangerous and hostile environment for officers to work in."

Junior Savoir photo courtesy Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation