Passenger injures Trooper during Cooper Landing traffic stop

A vehicle passenger injured an Alaska State Trooper on Wednesday evening near Cooper Landing after trying to interfere with a roadside sobriety test and kicking while troopers attempted to place her in a patrol vehicle.

Seward-based Alaska State Troopers conducted the traffic stop at approximately 7:09 p.m. on July 1 on the Sterling Highway. During the stop, the passenger and vehicle owner attempted to exit the vehicle and interfere with field sobriety tests being administered to the driver, according to the troopers dispatch.

Troopers said she "repeatedly kicked and used her legs to prevent placement into a patrol vehicle, causing injury to one of the Troopers." The dispatch did not specify the nature or severity of the injury.

She was charged with disorderly conduct and assault in the fourth degree and remanded to Wildwood Correctional Center in Soldotna. All charges are accusations; she is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.