Police officer knocked down off his motorcycle

By Benjamin Flowers: A police officer is receiving medical treatment after being knocked down off his motorcycle this morning.

Reports are that sometime between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m., PC Edison Castillo, who is attached to the Sandhill Police Station, was on motorcycle patrol near Mile 19 on the Philip Goldson highway.

Castillo was hit by a car and sustained a broken ankle as well as scrapes on the arm and elbow. He was taken via ambulance to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.

Police have since detained the driver of the car, whose name is being withheld pending formal charges.

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