{"id":198347,"date":"2026-05-20T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198347\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:37:32","slug":"erie-man-charged-with-aggravated-assault-against-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198347\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie man charged with aggravated assault against officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Erie man was arrested after causing bodily injury to a city of Erie police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nabitu Musabika, 31, is facing several charges including aggravated assault and possessing instruments of a crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This came after police responded to a call for a man walking with a knife, saying he may harm himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to documents, when the officer arrived on scene, Musabika began running away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Once the officer was able to catch up to him and lower him to the ground, the documents state that Musabika refused to comply and cut the officer on the wrist with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Musabika is currently being held on a $150,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Erie man was arrested after causing bodily injury to a city of Erie police officer. Nabitu Musabika,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4862,136,138,137,88035],"class_list":["post-198347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-nabitu-musabika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}