TONTITOWN -- A 54-year-old man has been arrested and a police officer escaped serious injury after being dragged by the man's pickup during an early-morning confrontation, according to police.
Tontitown police Chief Joey McCormick said in a statement officers responded early Sunday to a report of an intoxicated man urinating in public.
The man sped away in the pickup when an officer attempted to question him on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
But McCormick said the officer's equipment became snagged on the vehicle and he was dragged about 70 feet before falling to the ground.
The pickup then ran over the officer, who was later treated at a hospital and released.
The pickup was tracked to a home in Springdale, where Eddie Lee Marchant was arrested.
Marchant, of 34 Richway Ave. in Eureka Springs, was being held Sunday in the Washington County Detention Center in connection with aggravated assault, battery, leaving the scene of an injury accident and fleeing. No bond has been set.
NW News on 12/31/2018