Man grabs wife in front of police then kicks officer arresting him, cops say

A man appearing intoxicated grabbed his wife in front of police, then he kicked an officer when they were trying to arrest him, according to Coral Springs investigators.

Angel Alvarez Alfaro, 36, is charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, domestic battery and obstructing an officer without violence.

A woman called police from the Pollo Tropical on Wiles Road on March 18, reporting a driver had almost hit her with his car in the parking lot, according to an arrest affidavit from the Coral Springs Police Department.

Officers found Alvarez Alfaro standing outside his vehicle, and when they started talking to him, he pulled out a firearm from his waistband, police wrote.

He held it by the barrel and didn’t point it at the officer, who then took it out of his hands and unloaded it, according to police.

Officers said Alvarez Alfaro appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, and he refused to stay sitting on a curb as told, instead getting up and walking toward his car repeatedly.

Officers began trying to track down his wife to give him a ride home but placed Alvarez Alfaro in handcuffs in a patrol car until she arrived because he was reportedly not following orders to stay seated, police said.

“While sitting in the back of my patrol vehicle waiting for the defendant’s wife to arrive on scene, the defendant became more agitated and spit on the glass separating the front seats from the back seats,” officers wrote in the affidavit.

When Alvarez Alfaro’s wife got there, police told him he was free to go. But officers said he refused to leave, instead yelling at them and asking for their names and whether their body cameras were on.

His wife tried to calm him, but he “forcibly” grabbed her arm and yelled in her face, according to the affidavit.

That’s when police stepped in to arrest him. He’s accused of resisting, and when they eventually got him into the cuffs again and put him in the patrol car, he kicked one of the officers in the abdomen, police said.

His wife declined to prosecute him. After he was checked out at a hospital, the Margate man was taken to Broward jail. He bonded out March 25, records show.