A Wyoming, Michigan police officer was seriously injured when both of his feet were impaled by a booby-trap at a marijuana grow operation over the weekend.
Officer Dustin Cook was investigating an early morning break-in around 1:30 a.m. at a medical marijuana grow site on Clay Avenue Sunday when he scaled a gate to find a sheet of plywood on the other side with more than 100 three-inch, threaded decking screws pointing upward, according to WZZM-TV.
"He had three of these things go into his feet," Wyoming Police Chief James Carmody told the news station. "One in one heel and two in the other foot. One went through the center of his foot and did some damage to one of the tendons."
When responding officers arrived, they encountered two men inside the gray brick building dressed in black with their faces covered. Both men fled and police began to chase them.
Tyquan K. Hassel of Kentwood was the first to be captured and Andre D. Sims was apprehended a short time later.
Both are charged with breaking and entering a building, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Carmody says he is amazed as to why the grower felt the need to use a bed of screws when the building had an alarm system.
"We responded to that alarm," Carmody said. "Did they not think that we might not walk around the perimeter of that building to try to access the building? For some reason, the moron that put it down there didn't quite make that connection."
Cook, a six-year veteran of the force, was hospitalized following the incident and the police chief said that he's in a lot of pain.
"I was very angry; and when I went to the hospital I was even more angry," Carmody said. "He's a good officer, a hard-working officer and he’s been taken out of the field because of this idiot’s work."
