A Lincoln man is behind bars today after punching an officer in the head and siccing his pitbull him and another officer.

Officer Angela Sands says officers were dispatched to the 3700 block of NW Ebony Court Sunday after the mother of a 13-year-old runaway told police her daughter ran into a residence there.

Once they arrived at the residence, police contacted 19-year-old John Thompson III, who was uncooperative.

“Officers attempted to detain him for harboring a runaway and he punched the officer in the side of head several times,” says Sands. “He then struggled to open the door to his trailer and called for his pitbull to attack the officers. The pitbull was able to exit the trailer and bit the officer on the buttocks.”

Thompson also spat at officers and bit one of them at the knee, breaking skin.

Thompson was eventually arrested for two counts of assault on an officer, assault with bodily fluid, and resisting arrest.