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Biting cop lands woman in jail

2014-03-03 10:05 Global Times Web Editor: Li Yan
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A woman has been sentenced to one year in prison for biting and cutting a police officer during an investigation of an illegal gutter oil workshop in Jiading district, local prosecutors said Friday.

The defendant, surnamed Cai, was charged with obstruction of official business for attacking the officer while police and other officials were investigating the workshop, which she ran with her husband, according to a press release from the Jiading District People's Prosecutor's Office.

The prosecutor's office has seen a 60 percent increase in the number of obstruction of official business cases over the last year.

In July, a group of food and drug inspectors and police officers visited the workshop in Nanxiang town after a local resident complained that it was illegally processing waste cooking oil so it could be resold, prosecutors said.

When the investigating officials entered the building, Cai and her husband, surnamed Zhang, threatened them and brandished knives. When one police officer went to restrain Cai, she cut his arm and bit him on the elbow, prosecutors said.

After she was charged, Cai refused to admit to attacking the police officer or interfering with the investigation. She denied biting the officer or knowing anything about the gutter oil business, despite witness testimony to the contrary, prosecutors said.

During their visit to the workshop, the officials found several barrels of food waste in a van parked on the property. Each of the barrels weighed about 50 kilograms. The officials also confiscated equipment used to reprocess waste cooking oil.

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