{"id":186390,"date":"2025-08-30T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186390\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:31:10","slug":"officer-hit-by-glass-after-hammer-shatters-window-of-chula-vista-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186390\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer hit by glass after hammer shatters window of Chula Vista police car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0.CV1_.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0.CV1_.jpg\" alt=\"Chula Vista police vehicle patrol\" class=\"wp-image-196997\"  \/><\/a>Chula Vista police car. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>A man was behind bars Friday for allegedly hurling a hammer at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chulavistaca.gov\/departments\/police-department\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chula Vista police<\/a> cruiser, leaving an officer with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers were inside the patrol vehicle, stopped at a red light at Brisbane Street and North Fourth Avenue at about 3 p.m. Thursday, said Sgt. Anthony Molina in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A man then rode up on a bicycle and threw the hammer \u2013 it shattered a window on the front passenger side of the police car \u2013 before pedaling away. Molina said the officers initially thought shots had been fired.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video from a nearby business, however, captured images of the suspect passing by, getting off his bike and throwing the hammer. Two Caltrans workers also witnessed the incident and shared information with investigators. <\/p>\n<p>Officers located and arrested Luis Angel Ortiz, 29, nearby a short time later. He was booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion on assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held on $50,000 bail. An arraignment is set for Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The officer in the passenger seat was treated at the scene for superficial cuts from the shattered glass, Molina said.<\/p>\n<p>Chula Vista Police Department Chief Roxana Kennedy said the incident \u201ccould have had tragic consequences.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She added that \u201cwe will not tolerate violence against law enforcement officers, and we are grateful that our officers were not seriously injured.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chula Vista police car. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV) A man was behind bars Friday for allegedly hurling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,104470,1582,276,45637,15191,3549,66562,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon-on-a-peace-officer","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-chula-vista-police-department","13":"tag-hammer","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-central-jail","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115844367160469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}