For Immediate Release

July 1, 2024

A Kansas City man has been charged with assaulting and causing serious physical injury to a Kansas City (MO) Police Department officer who was working in a Downtown story on Sunday morning, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced today.

Jorge I. Arroyo faces Assault in the 1st Degree and Armed Criminal Action charges.* 

According to court records filed Sunday, police officers about 8:15 Sunday morning were dispatched to the Cosentino's Downtown Market on East 13th Street for a reported assist of an officer. A sergeant was working off-duty, in uniform, when he was assaulted by a man after the officer asked him to leave the store and placed the man's belongings outside the store. The officer told police he had asked the defendant to leave after he was told he previously been caught stealing. The defendant became enraged, picked up a metal chair, and hit the officer in the head. The officer fell to the ground while the defendant kept striking him. The officer radioed for assistance. Customers and store employees restrained the defendant until other officers arrived. Witnesses told police they saw the defendant swinging the chair at the officer. The officer underwent surgery for a head laceration and required up to 30 stitches. He also injured his hand.

Prosecutors requested a $150,000 cash bond.

For more information, contact:

Michael Mansur 

Director of Communication 

Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office 

Jean Peters Baker, Prosecutor 

(816) 881-3812 

(816) 674-3954 

mmansur@jacksongov.org 

https://www.jacksoncountyprosecutor.com

*Charges are only accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until the defendant is either found guilty or pleads guilty.