A 25-year-old man from Emmen has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison for nine offences, half of which are conditional. The resident of Emmen had drugs in his possession, was driving under the influence and tried to seriously injure officers during his arrest.
The man fled from the police on November 11, 2021, March 17 and August 13 of 2022 during a traffic check. The first time the man drove a scooter. The police directed him to the side, but the man fled at high speed with a motorcycle officer on his heels. The inhabitant of Emmen collided with his scooter against the motorcycle on purpose.
The crash caused the Emmenaar to break his ankle. He nevertheless tried to flee, but was arrested anyway. Blood tests showed he was driving under the influence of drugs and without a valid driver’s license.
The collision with the motorcycle could have ended seriously for the officer. The judge finds attempted aggravated assault proven. The twenties were then released and reappeared in March during a traffic check.
This time he drove a car and was pulled over. The officer looked into the car and saw an amount of cannabis in the car. The man suddenly backed away. This caught the officer’s fingers in the door.
De Emmenaar was again guilty of attempted aggravated assault on a police officer. The driver drove off with a handcuff on his wrist. He was tracked by the license plate number.
In August, the man drove a car in the Rietlanden district and was approached for not wearing a seat belt. This time too, the man drove away at high speed and showed dangerous driving behavior by brushing past pedestrians and cyclists. He also drove across a field where people were sunbathing.
Driving without a valid driver’s license and dangerous driving are violations. For this, the judge imposed an additional prison sentence of seven weeks in total.
Two weeks ago, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded a prison sentence of 20 months and a driving ban of two years. The punishment is lower, among other things, because the citizen of Emmen was not convicted of vandalism due to a ‘clerical error’ in the indictment. The twenty-something was given a driving ban of one year, but conditionally.