Man Assaults Officer On Arrest For Traffic Violations: Police

LAWRENCE, NY — A man, who was stopped for multiple traffic violations, tried to get away from police and assaulted an officer, detectives said.

Dwayne Gordon, 20, was pulled over just before 1 a.m. Friday near the intersection of Route 878 and Rockaway Turnpike, police said.

Gordon, who was driving a 2010 Mercedes Benz with a Texas license plate, was observed committing multiple traffic infractions, a police release said.

While investigating Gordon, who is from Brooklyn, police discovered his plates were fraudulent and he was placed in custody, detectives said.

Gordon, however, briefly escaped officers as they attempted to put him in the squad car, police said.

As they placed him into the vehicle for a second time, Gordon is accused of violently resisting arrest, including headbutting an officer, detectives said.

The officer was treated at an area hospital for a cut to his face.

Gordon was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Hempstead on second-degree assault, second-degree escape, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and the multiple traffic infractions.