Burbank officer recovering after being knocked unconscious in fight with suspect
A Burbank police officer was knocked unconscious during a fight Sunday night with an assault and vandalism suspect, police said.
At around11 p.m., officers responded to Glenoaks Boulevard and Santa Anita Avenue after the 26-year-old Granada Hills man allegedly slammed a woman’s head into a window and kicked through two other store windows a block away, said Burbank Police Sgt. Claudio Losacco.
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In the unprovoked attack, Michael Cho reportedly approached the stranger, grabbed her head and bashed it into a window of a business on Glenoaks Boulevard, leaving her with a 1.5-inch cut above her eye.
The woman, a Burbank resident who was walking in the area, was treated by paramedics at the scene and took herself to a hospital.
When police arrived, Cho became combative and fought two officers, one of whom was left unconscious and taken to a local hospital for treatment. The officer has since been released.
Cho, who reportedly had in his possession antipsychotic medication and a sedative, was treated at a hospital for injuries sustained during the fight and the alleged vandalism.
Cho was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a peace officer, vandalism and resisting an officer, and is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail, according to authorities.
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Alene Tchekmedyian, alene.tchekmedyian@latimes.com
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