QUINCY -- Two police officers were hospitalized Thursday after a shoplifting suspect with a history of violence attacked them in Wollaston.
Officers managed to arrest Brendan McGuinness, who is 34 or 35 years old, after the scuffle, which began outside CVS on Beale Street and spilled into the parking lot of the Wollaston Center T station across the street. Two alleged accomplices were also arrested, the police said.
Police Chief Robert Crowley said the incident began when McGuinness left CVS with stolen merchandise and an employee flagged down Quincy police officer David Levine, who was in a cruiser nearby.
Levine blocked the car carrying the trio. When the officer clamped one handcuff on McGuinness, the man ``gave him a forearm right above the right eye, causing a deep gash,'' Crowley said.
Detective John Menz, who was working a private detail, arrived shortly and caught up with McGuinness in the MBTA lot. Menz and other officers, who responded to a radio distress call, detained McGuinness. Menz hurt his ankle during the struggle.
Both officers are at Quincy Medical Center and Levine is expected to need several stitches, Crowley said.
McGuinness will be charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (his boot), assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and shoplifting, Crowley said.
A man and woman with McGuinness will be charged with shoplifting, said Crowley, who did have their names.
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McGuinness was indicted in 2004 on charges he robbed a Holbrook pharmacy, stole a Jeep and drove the wrong way on Route 3 to try to avoid police. Police said he was armed with a knife when he stole OxyContin and Percocet from the Brooks Pharmacy on Route 37.
In 1997, while in state prison in Walpole for an armed robbery conviction, McGuinness pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery on a correction officer.
Officials testified at the time the assault occurred after they ordered a general room search and McGuinness was removed from his cell. He was taken into the shower room in handcuffs and leg irons, where he proceeded to turn on the water and block the drain, causing a flood in the segregation tier.
Lt. Daniel Lussier, then 44, took McGuinness into an adjoining room. He later told investigators that McGuinness became enraged and ``headbutted'' him. Lussier suffered a concussion and two broken teeth and eventually required surgery
Officers managed to arrest Brendan McGuinness, who is 34 or 35 years old, after the scuffle, which began outside CVS on Beale Street and spilled into the parking lot of the Wollaston Center T station across the street. Two alleged accomplices were also arrested, the police said.
Police Chief Robert Crowley said the incident began when McGuinness left CVS with stolen merchandise and an employee flagged down Quincy police officer David Levine, who was in a cruiser nearby.
Levine blocked the car carrying the trio. When the officer clamped one handcuff on McGuinness, the man ``gave him a forearm right above the right eye, causing a deep gash,'' Crowley said.
Detective John Menz, who was working a private detail, arrived shortly and caught up with McGuinness in the MBTA lot. Menz and other officers, who responded to a radio distress call, detained McGuinness. Menz hurt his ankle during the struggle.
Both officers are at Quincy Medical Center and Levine is expected to need several stitches, Crowley said.
McGuinness will be charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (his boot), assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and shoplifting, Crowley said.
A man and woman with McGuinness will be charged with shoplifting, said Crowley, who did have their names.
McGuinness was indicted in 2004 on charges he robbed a Holbrook pharmacy, stole a Jeep and drove the wrong way on Route 3 to try to avoid police. Police said he was armed with a knife when he stole OxyContin and Percocet from the Brooks Pharmacy on Route 37.
In 1997, while in state prison in Walpole for an armed robbery conviction, McGuinness pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery on a correction officer.
Officials testified at the time the assault occurred after they ordered a general room search and McGuinness was removed from his cell. He was taken into the shower room in handcuffs and leg irons, where he proceeded to turn on the water and block the drain, causing a flood in the segregation tier.
Lt. Daniel Lussier, then 44, took McGuinness into an adjoining room. He later told investigators that McGuinness became enraged and ``headbutted'' him. Lussier suffered a concussion and two broken teeth and eventually required surgery
