A dozen charges have been laid against four people after a late night brawl outside of a Woodstock bar saw four police officers assaulted.
Police were called about a disturbance outside of the licensed establishment on Dundas Street around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. Officers arrived and conducted crowd control in the area.
Roughly an hour later, police intervened when an altercation broke out as a large number of people were leaving the bar. Additional fights followed, during which four officers were assaulted, police said.
None of the officers were seriously hurt and there were no injuries among those involved in the fights.
A 19-year-old and 46-year-old from Woodstock, a 28-year-old from Chatham, and a 22-year-old from Ingersoll have been charged with a combined 12 offences, including causing a disturbance, assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest, obstructing a peace officer, and mischief under $5,000.
The investigation is on-going, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 519-537-2323 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
