Truck driver accused of biting police officers after driving bobtail drunk and home break-in attempt

A truck driver is accused of biting a police officer after an incident where he drove his bobtail semi truck drunk and tried to break into a house. 

The incident happened on Friday, January 9th on North Layman Avenue, near East 21st Street and North Ritter Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

According to 13 WTHR, police were called to the scene to find a white Mack bobtail semi truck in the yard of a home on North Layman Avenue with a mailbox wedged underneath the rear tires. Police knocked on the truck cab door and instructed the driver to come out, which he did. 

The truck driver, identified as Gursewak Singh, exited the cab. Police report that they could “immediately” smell alcohol and placed Singh in handcuffs. As they walked Singh to the police vehicle, he had trouble maintaining his balance and informed officers that there was another person in his truck. Another person was never found. 

A witness on scene told police that they heard the semi truck crash and then saw Singh running up to their door. Singh then began kicking and banging on the door, and soon used a porch chair to strike the door. The witness told officers they believed that Singh was trying to enter their home for “an unknown reason.”

During his arrest, Singh admitted to officers that he was drunk, and was unable to follow instructions during a sobriety test. As officers transported him to a nearby hospital for a blood test, he began shouting so loudly that he caused pain to the officer’s ear as he drove. Singh then proceeded to spit on and kick the police officer as he drove. 

The officer was able to safely pull over and remove Singh from the vehicle before calling an additional, safer police vehicle to transport Singh to the hospital. Singh refused to follow orders to stay on the ground, and ended up biting one of the officers on the thigh during an altercation, causing “pain and injury.”

Once at the hospital after biting the officer, Singh was crying, unable to walk, and had soiled himself. During one of the tests, Singh began to lick and spit on the attending police officers, forcing them to place a spit hood on him. During a blood draw, Singh squeezed the nurse’s fingers so hard that she screamed. 

Singh has been charged with three counts of battery against a public safety official, battery by bodily waste (victim is public safety officer), operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, resisting law enforcement, criminal mischief, operating a vehicle with a BAC of .08 or more and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.