A suspect whose car was being searched by police in Bay St. louis, Miss, nearly bit off a police officers finger after he swallowed a bag of alleged drugs.
Jessie Acker has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and possession of a controlled substance.
Narcotics agent, Abe, Long was checking Jessie Acker’s car for drugs when Acker swallowed a bag of drugs which might have contained cocaine and pills. A fellow officer, Tim Airhart, who’d been standing nearby demanded that Acker spit the bag out. When Acker didn’t co-operate police used a chemical spray on Acker hoping that it would force the suspect to gag and cause him to regurgitate the small bag.
The officer, Long, placed his hand near the suspects mouth and waited to catch “whatever it was he was about to spit out”, but instead of spitting the bag out, the officer heard a loud “crunch”.
Acker gnawed the tip of Longs index finger for three or four seconds, tearing and smashing it. The mangled finger was molded back together and bandaged at Hancock Medical Center.
En route to jail, Acker vomited in the police car, officials said. Agents sifted through the vomit and allegedly found several blue pills.