Naperville Cops Attacked by Inmate

A 21-year-old man attacked two Naperville police officers after he was to the station for a traffic crash.

David I. Starks, of Naperville, allegedly grabbed a holding cell officer by the wrists, raising them above her head, and pushed her into a cabinet. He also lunged into the arresting officer’s chest with his shoulder, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune.

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Starks was originally arrested for hitting a parked car. When pulled over by police, he was uncooperative, refusing to remove his hands from his pockets, refusing to be handcuffed and refusing to stop walking, according to the Tribune.

Starks has been charged with aggravated battery to specific persons, battery making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature, resisting or obstructing a police officer, driving too fast for conditions or failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, failure to give information to owner after striking unattended vehicle or property, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, failure to yield turning left, leaving the scene of an accident involving damage to attended vehicle and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

Starks’ bail has been set at $7,500.

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