A North Platte man is in hot water after he assaulted a North Platte Police Officer on Sunday.

At around 8:40 PM, officers responded to an apartment complex in the 1200 block of East 4th after they received a report of an intoxicated male subject causing a disturbance.

According to NPPD Public Information Officer Rodney Brown, officers made contact with Carl J. McKinney, 26, who was visibly intoxicated and bleeding from the nose and mouth.  McKinney was being loud, belligerent and verbally abusive to another male subject, as well as the responding officers.

As officers attempted to calm McKinney, he spat in the face of one of the officers.

As a result, officers placed him under arrest and charged him with Disturbing the Peace, a Class III misdemeanor, and Assault on an Officer with Bodily Fluid, a Class IIIA Felony.

McKinney was transported and jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.