Man Found Sleeping in Texarkana Creek
Posted/updated on: July 15, 2011 at 2:17 am
TEXARKANA (AP) — A Florida man is in police custody after officers found him sleeping in a Texarkana, Texas, creek. Texarkana police say Ihab El Mahmoud is jailed on three charges of assaulting a police officer. Bond is set at $60,000.
Police Officer Ed Emilia tells The Texarkana Gazette that a man and his mother saw what appeared to be a body in Swampoodle Creek on the edge of downtown Tuesday afternoon. Police summoned to the scene investigated and found the man sleeping. Emilia says that when the officers awakened him and tried to help him up, the man became combative and started punching before he was subdued.
