Passenger injures Trooper during Cooper Landing traffic stop

A passenger on the Sterling Highway near Cooper Landing kicked an Alaska State Trooper Wednesday evening after trying to interfere with a roadside sobriety test, troopers said.

Seward-based troopers stopped a vehicle at about 7:09 p.m. When the driver was being tested, the passenger got out and tried to disrupt the process. Troopers attempted to place her in a patrol vehicle. She "repeatedly kicked and used her legs to prevent placement into a patrol vehicle, causing injury to one of the Troopers," according to the dispatch.

The dispatch did not describe the nature or severity of the injury.

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