Officers had to use pepper spray and a baton to subdue a suspect in a domestic violence case early yesterday morning.
One of them, Sgt. David Quinn, was hurt in the scuffle.
Quinn and another officer, Patrolman Leon Stuart, went to Patriots Circle at 3:26 a.m. to investigate a possible domestic disturbance. There they found Jeremy L. Clay, 32, of 81 Park St., Lynn, sitting on his girlfriend's front steps.
His girlfriend told police that she had come home to find Clay in her house, and he became agitated when she asked him to leave, according to Stuart's written report.
Police spoke with Clay, who agreed to leave and take the first train home to Lynn.
But the officers were still on Patriots Circle when, a short time later, Clay returned, the report states.
Clay later told police that he had thought they'd be gone by then, making it safe for him to go back to his girlfriend's house, according to the report.
When they went to arrest him, police say Clay began to fight with them. Sgt. Quinn sprayed a burst of pepper in his face, took hold of him and began to wrestle him to the ground.
As Quinn and Clay fought, Stuart approached and started hitting Clay in the back of the leg with his baton. But he also accidentally hit the sergeant in the arm, he wrote in his report.
Sgt. Quinn was later taken to the Addison Gilbert Hospital to have his arm examined.
Clay was eventually taken into custody and charged with domestic assault and battery and resisting arrest.
Police have arrested a second suspect in the weekend break-in of a gift shop on Harbor Loop.
Steven C. Serfass, 39, of 603 Holt Ave., Manchester, N.H., was taken into custody while on a fishing boat Wednesday afternoon. He was charged with breaking and entering in the nighttime and malicious destruction of property valued at more than $250.
Police had arrested another New Hampshire man, John R. Tinker, 38, of Claremont, while investigating a burglar alarm at The Building Center late Saturday night. Police said they found Tinker and another man coming out of the building, and, because he was holding something in his hand, arrested him at gunpoint.
However, the man with him got away.
Sgt. Quinn and Detective Steven Mizzoni were acting on a tip when they went to the Harbor Loop at 5 p.m. Wednesday and arrested Serfass. He was on board the Stella Sea, doing some sports fishing, when he was taken into custody.
Police investigated a report of youths throwing rocks at Fort Square at 7:38 p.m. Wednesday. The culprits could not be found.
An 18-year-old Lexington woman was taken to the Addison Gilbert Hospital after she was found, "extremely intoxicated," on Vine Street at 1:13 a.m. Her father later picked her up from the hospital, the police log noted.
Patients were taken to the Addison Gilbert Hospital from Wheeler, Smith, Atlantic and Hickory streets on Wednesday, and from Washington and East Main streets, Englewood and Dory Road and Magnolia Avenue yesterday.
