This weekend, a police officer was harmed while making an arrest.

Officer Patrick Bliss sustained minor injuries while apprehending Andrew Philemonof, 28. Philemonof allegedly attacked Bliss and two other officers with a knife around 2am on Saturday, after being confronted about urinating in public while inebriated.

“He became a little bit aggressive and refused to put down his bottle of beer,” says Sgt. Mike Holman with the Unalaska Department of Public Safety. “During the arrest, he had a knife in his hand and struggled with the officers – he told the officers that he intended to cut them. He also kicked two different officers in the head.”

No medical treatment was needed by the officers on duty, but Holman adds that the situation was still a dangerous one that was at risk of escalating.

“Pulling a knife on an armed police officer is probably not a good idea,” he says.

Philemonof was arraigned on Monday, and he has been charged with assault in the fourth degree, resisting and interfering with arrest by force, and criminal mischief. All charges are Class A misdemeanors.

Philemonof has a criminal history in Unalaska. Last July he was acquitted of assault after allegedly biting a housemate and then claiming to be a vampire.