DA Warren Montgomery announces that 40 YO Joseph Kott, of Mandeville, plead guilty of Resisting a Police Officer with Force or Violence, Battery of a Police Officer, and Simple Criminal Trespassing. On January 19, at 4:30 am, Sheriff Officers were called to a Madisonville residence in response to a trespassing call. Officers arrived on the scene and found Kott on the front steps of the property. When the responding officers told Kott to leave the property, he refused and attempted to flee the officers and enter the residence. During the arrest, Kott began swinging with fists and elbows, causing a laceration to the head of one of the officers. The officer was treated at a local hospital and needed 5 staples to close the wound. Kott has previous convictions for Resisting a Police Officer, DWI, and Careless Operation of a Vehicle, and Vehicular Homicide. Kott faces up to eight years in prison when he is sentenced on March 10, 2020.
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