Man Pulls Knife At Officers, Lets Bird Fly Afterward: Police

LUDLOW, MA — A man who police said pulled a knife on two officers also became the latest to give the finger during his booking photo.

Ludlow Police said they responded to woman calling for help getting her car and cell phone from a home on Higher Brook Drive Saturday morning. While helping her in the house, a man, later identified at 64-year-old Ernest Marasa, approached her screaming and holding something behind his back.

When the officers intervened, Marasa pulled out an eight-inch folding lock-blade knife on them, police said. The officers ordered him to drop the knife, which he did.

Marasa was arrested and charged with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, obstruction of justice, and vandalizing property.

Last week, a "belligerent" New Bedford man flipped off police in his booking photo in Dartmouth.

Ludlow Police photos