Central Bucks Police. Photo by James Short.
A New Jersey man is accused of attempting to burglarize a home in Doylestown Borough earlier this month and then becoming combative with police, who eventually had to restrain him in a chair.
Jared Fredric Hughes, 25, of the 700 block of Yardville Hamilton Square Road, Hamilton NJ, was charged by Central Bucks Regional Police with felony criminal trespassing by entering a structure, misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and loitering and prowling at night, and summary charges of criminal trespassing and defiant trespassing of a fenced or enclosed property, per court records.
Hughes is free on $10,000 unsecured bail, set by Bucks County Magisterial District Judge John T. Galloway at an Aug. 10 arraignment, per court records.
On Aug. 10 at 2 a.m., police were dispatched to a burglary in progress on the 90th block of Harvey Avenue, where a man, identified as Hughes, was trying to enter the home through a rear door, police said. Hughes had entered the property via a side gate, per reports.
Police made contact with Hughes at the rear of the property and attempted to speak with him, according to the complaint. However, he was immediately combative, police allege, and would not identify himself.
Police attempted to detain Hughes, but he began pulling his arms into his chest, police said, and was pulling away with great strength from police in an attempt to escape custody.
Hughes, police said, was screaming and yelling obscenities during the incident and continued resisting arrest, knocking down two police officers. Eventually, it took four officers to place Hughes in handcuffs, police said.
The victim told police she kept her side gate closed and that she did not know Hughes, per the affidavit.
She told police she heard loud banging on her windows and doors in the rear of the home, and when she went to check her back window, and found Hughes in her yard, per the complaint. Police said the victim’s sliding screen door had been moved.
Due to Hughes’s alleged aggressive behavior, police put leg restraints on him prior to being placed in a patrol car, per the complaint. However, he resisted entering the car by sitting down, which made police force him into the car, police said. While en route to police headquarters, Hughes was spitting inside of the police car, per the complaint.
Hughes, police allege, continued to be uncooperative at the station and had to be placed in a restraint chair.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 16 at 3 p.m. before Magisterial District Judge Mark D. Douple.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
