Sex Offender Headbutts Police Officer

A man wanted for not registering as a sex offender multiple times reportedly broke one officer's bones by headbutting him in the face during an outburst as he was being arrested.

“As he was being escorted out of the building, he lunged forward and smashed himself against a glass door," said Det. Scott DeCiero of the Community Services Bureau of the Marlborough Police Department. "He also headbutted one of the officers on his way outside."

John J. Miller, 31, of 104 Charles Street in Dennis was being arrested on five warrant charges which included assault and battery, posession of a class E drug, resisting arrest and a subsequent failure to register as a sex offender. Police had discovered Miller's true identity during an investigation into a breaking and entering where he gave police multiple different identities, according to police.

Police took Miller into custody on Briarwood Lane shortly before 5 a.m. on Saturday. When they moved to bring him out to police cruisers he began resisting arrest. He kicked officers after he had smashed his own face into a glass door "splitting his head open" before headbutting an officer, according to police reports.

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Miller continued to headbutt the plexiglass barrier in the cruiser he was loaded into until he was pepper sprayed by police, according to court documents. He was then brought to the Marlborough Hospital.

Miller was arrested on five warrants and charges of furnishing a false name, impeding an investigation through witness intimidation, vandalizing property, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. He appeared in court Tuesday and was held without bail.