An Auburn man was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison for headbutting a police officer and injuring the officer’s forehead during a May encounter.
Karson Ecker, 31, will also serve five years of post-release supervision, according to the Cayuga County District Attorney’s Office.
Judge Steven Buschman sentenced Ecker as a second violent felony offender after his Oct. 14 guilty plea to one count of second-degree assault, a Class D violent felony.
The charge stemmed from a May 8 incident in Auburn, when police responded to a suspicious-person complaint and found Ecker highly intoxicated and repeatedly knocking on a residence’s door, according to District Attorney Brittany Grome Antonacci.
During the encounter, Ecker threatened officers and headbutted one of them, causing physical injury to the officer’s forehead, the district attorney’s office said.
Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Susan Azzarelli prosecuted the case.
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