After arrest man head-butts police officer

Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 00:00

GUILDERLAND — After being arrested on several charges, Omar S. Lyons head-butted a Guilderland police officer, according to the department.

Lyons, of 510 Brandywine, was trying to steal personal items from employees of Champs, in Crossgates Mall, said Sergeant Eric Batchelder.  On March 16, Guilderland Police arrested Lyons, 25, for third-degree attempted robbery, unlawful imprisonment, second-degree menacing, and fourth-degree criminal mischief, according to a release from the department.

“It was obvious at the time,” Batchelder said of how the employees caught on to Lyons’s attempted theft.

After he had been transported to the police station, he “did strike the head of a Guilderland police sergeant with his own head, causing the sergeant to suffer a mild to moderate concussion,” the release says. 

Both Lyons and Sergeant Glenn Stevens were taken to the hospital and subsequently released, said Batchelder.  Lyons was returned to Guilderland Town Hall, where he was arraigned and remanded to Albany County’s jail.  There, he was to stay until he was given a psychological exam, Batchelder said.

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