Sergeant injured at East Washington Avenue grocery store after battery incident

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A police sergeant was injured while responding to a battery call on Saturday after officers were dispatched to the Festival Foods grocery store along the 800 block of E. Washington Ave. around 3:30 p.m., according to a police incident report.

A man had physically attacked a woman and then left the area. Officers located him nearby on south Blair Street.

The man physically resisted officers, and a sergeant was injured during the struggle. The man continued to threaten the woman while in custody.

Kenneth Pendleton, 59, of Madison was arrested for battery, strangulation, intimidation of a victim, and resisting arrest causing injury.

He was booked into the Dane County Jail.

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