#assault-on-officer

#assault-on-officer

True Brading, 26, admitted to assault on a police officer and will spend 30 days in jail and 120 days on house arrest. Brading was driving as Yahyaa ran from police and ran over Officer Dan Pojanamat's foot during their escape. Yahyaa and Brading were tracked down and arrested in Berkeley later that week. The couple signed the plea deal with Deputy District Attorney William Bobseine on Oct. 27 and will be formally sentenced at the Palo Alto Courthouse on Dec. 17.

This young man is obviously suffering some mental illness, said San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe. It was a felony act when he tried to stab the officer, Wagstaffe added. If the appropriate resolution is mental health treatment of some sort, the fact is a felony will have a better chance of getting the best treatment possible in terms of resources devoted to it.