Crime & Safety
Golf Course Finger Bite Description: Like Someone Eating A Dorito
Derek Harkins of Brockton faces allegations that he bit off someone finger's during a fight over the pace of play at a golf course.
PLYMOUTH, MA — What started as an argument over the pace of play at Mouthers Marsh Golf Club in Plymouth Friday resulted in a fight that left one golfer with only nine fingers and a Brockton man with a date to appear in court.
Derek Harkins, 46, was arraigned in Plymouth District Court Monday on charges of assault and battery, mayhem and disturbing the peace. He is free on the $10,000 cash bail he paid to get out of jail, according to the Boston Herald.
Authorities say that Harkins' group was upset that the group ahead of them was going too slow. When they confronted the group, a brawl allegedly ensued and Harkins bit another golfer's finger off.
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Court records described the bite “like someone chewing on a Dorito.”
According to court documents—the victim who had his finger bit off during an altercation in a Plymouth golf tourament on Friday described his attacker biting his finger “like someone chewing on a Dorito”@NBC10Boston @NECN (his finger was not able to be stitched back on)
— Cassy Arsenault (@CassyArsenault) August 20, 2018
Harkins' attorney, Jack Atwood, told reporters after the arraignment that things aren't always as they seem.
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Harkins is due back in court Wednesday for a pretrial hearing.
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