A Provo man has been charged with a handful of felonies after an alleged assault on an officer who tried to stop him from stealing from a donation box.
The man, 40, had climbed into a food pantry donation box in Springville on Friday afternoon, his feet jutting from the top when an officer spotted him.
The man complied when the officer asked him to climb out, according to an arrest document. But while the officer was attempting to handcuff the man, he broke free from the officer’s grip and punched the officer in the eye, fracturing his orbital bone.