Adam Tipene, left, is charged with stabbing a police dog. Photo/ Imran Ali
A man charged with stabbing a police dog in the head has chosen to have his case heard before a jury.
Adam Tipene, a 30-year-old forestry worker from Onerahi, appeared in the Whangārei District Court on Mondayand entered not guilty pleas to charges and elected a jury trial.
He faces
charges of unlawful interference with a 2009 Kawasaki motorcycle, assaulting a police officer while unlawfully taking a motorbike, failing to stop for police, entering a building in Parua Bay with intent to commit a crime with a knife, resisting a police officer and intentionally wounding a police dog.
The stabbing took place after police were called to reports of a burglary at a Parua Bay home.
Caesar had been stabbed once through the skull, while another strike went into his eye socket, police said.
