Crime & Safety
Complaint: Waukesha Man Sends Cop to Hospital With Separated Shoulder
Suspect, 18, allegedly told officers he wanted to shoot them all in the head.
An 18-year-old Waukesha man is accused of separating the shoulder of a Waukesha police officer while being taken into custody. The police officer is unable to immediately return to work because of the injury, according to Police Capt. Dennis Angle.
Angel Emmanuel Diaz was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Monday with one count of resisting an officer and causing substantial bodily harm, one count of criminal trespass and one count of disorderly conduct. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison and $21,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint, at 10:57 p.m. Friday, officers were called to a residence in the 200 block of South Hartwell Avenue after Diaz tried to get into a resident’s home and then stood on a neighbor’s lawn. When officers arrived, Diaz was lying on the sidewalk and not moving and had blood on the right side of his face that appeared to be coming from his ear.
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Diaz told the officer he was homeless and had been drinking, and initially told him he was 18, but later said he was 14 years old, the complaint states.
After the officer tried to arrest him for underage drinking, the complaint states Diaz then began to resist the officer and another officer trying to handcuff him. Diaz then appeared to lose his balance and fall backwards on one of the officers, who fully separated one of his shoulders, according to the complaint.
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While lying on top of the disabled officer, Diaz continued to resist another officer, who eventually punched Diaz four to six times in the face until he stopped resisting, the complaint states. A third officer then arrived at the scene and helped place Diaz in a restraint chair in order to transport him to Waukesha County Memorial Hospital.
While at the hospital, the complaint states Diaz continued to use vulgar language with medical staff and told the officers in the room he wanted to kill them and “take a gun and put it to the officers’ head and shoot them.”
Diaz was released from Waukesha County Jail on Tuesday on $2,500 cash bail.
