Hot temperatures sometimes bring out the worst in folks, as evidenced by a pair of incidents Winters police responded to Tuesday evening at a downtown park.
It all began at about 5:45 p.m., when officers were dispatched to reports of a physical fight in progress at Rotary Park, the Winters Police Department reported on social media.
They arrived to encounter 31-year-old Bernardo Ibarra, a local transient and known parolee, leaving the area appearing “agitated and sweating profusely.”
“Officers attempted to contact Ibarra, who refused to stop and continued walking away,” police said. As they tried to detain him, “Ibarra physically resisted and a Taser was successfully used to subdue him.”
The struggle continued in the back of a patrol car, where police said Ibarra allegedly kicked and spit on officers and struck his head, leading to further restraints and a “spit hood” being placed over his head. He was booked into the Yolo County Jail on a resisting-arrest charge.
At about the same time officers were arresting Ibarra, fire and ambulance personnel responded to reports of an injured person behind the Winters Community Center, suffering from head injuries and a broken arm, police said.
“The subject said he was attacked by Phillip Swink,” a 58-year-old Winters transient, the social media post said. “Swink was still in the area and was contacted by officers. Swink stated the other subject started the altercation, but he had no injuries consistent with his statement.”
That led to a second trip to the jail that night, where Swink was lodged on suspicion of battery causing serious bodily injury.