SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement are investigating a suspect for allegedly damaging a police car.
Just after 8:30p.m. Sunday, police were called to the Hastings Motel, 217 South Broadway Avenue, in Salina, for a disturbance between two 40-year-old residents.
The dispute involved accusations of prior vehicle damage and claims that each party was armed, though it was later determined that only one subject was armed with a torch lighter. No charges were filed in connection with the incident, according to Salina Police Captain James Feldman.
While officers were investigating this incident, a resident of the motel, identified as 61-year-old Ricky L. Hall, had been in the parking lot yelling and cursing at officers, according to Feldman . Hall was not involved in the original call, but as an officer investigating the disturbance was speaking with hotel employees in the office, he heard loud banging and went outside and observed Hall with a logging chain striking the hood of a police car.
The officer intervened, ordering Hall to the ground at taser point. Hall complied and was taken into custody without further incident.
The hood and windshield of the police car sustained damage, estimated at $4,000. Hall was booked into the Saline County Jail on a requested charge of felony damage to property.