Assault suspect drives wrong way down Pioneer Way

An Oak Harbor man is accused of biting a fellow bar patron on the neck.

An Oak Harbor man is accused of biting a fellow bar patron on the neck, driving the wrong way down a one-way street, hitting a parked vehicle and assaulting police officers May 19, according to court documents.

The suspect, 23-year-old Ramon Tello Navarro, appeared in Island County Superior Court later that Thursday. Judge Christon Skinner found probable cause existed to believe Tello Navarro committed the crimes of three counts of assault in the third degree, assault in the fourth degree, hit and run, resisting arrest and DUI.

Skinner ordered Tello Navarro held on $10,000 bail.

According to the police report on the incident, a man at a downtown Oak Harbor bar told police that Tello Navarro seemed intoxicated and grabbed him by the side of the neck. Tello Navarro bit the man on the neck after a brief struggle, the report states, and both men were kicked out of the bar.

The man got into his car to leave but Tello Navarro drove his truck behind him and blocked him in. Tello Navarro started getting out of his truck when the man’s friends intervened and told him to leave.

Tello Navarro drove down Southeast Pioneer Way and then turned around to drive the wrong way down the one-way street. He struck a pickup truck that was parked near the man’s car, the report states.

A police officer responding to the incident found Tello Navarro’s truck traveling on Bayshore Drive and followed it into a parking lot. The truck backed up and struck the police car; Tello Navarro tried to drive away, the report indicates.

Two officers ordered Tello Navarro to turn off the pickup truck and were able to get the keys from him. He resisted when the officers tried to pull him from the truck and kicked an officer in the leg. After he was dragged from the truck, Tello Navarro managed to get free and started pulling himself underneath the truck, the report states.

Tello Navarro bit one officer on the knee and scratched others while they struggled to handcuffed him on the ground, the report states.