Officer Dustin Cook, a six-year veteran, impaled both feet on a sheet of plywood with over 100 upward-facing screws. Cook was in the middle of investigating a marijuana grow operation.
Officers on the scene entered the building and discovered two suspects who fled. Police chased and detained Andre D. Sims and Tyquan K. Hassel, both 19. Hassel allegedly threw a handgun while fleeing.
“He had three of these [screws] go into his feet,” Police Chief James Carmody said. “One in one heel and two in the other foot. One went through the center of his foot and did some damage to one of the tendons.”
Carmody is still trying to establish why the suspected grower used the booby trap when the building has an alarm.
Officers found over 90 mature marijuana plants inside the building, this is according to WZZM.
“We responded to that alarm,’’ Carmody said. “Did they not think that we might not walk around the perimeter of that building to try to access the building? For some reason, the moron that put it down there didn’t quite make that connection.’’
