An incident that began as a routine DUI traffic stop went quickly downhill for police officers as one of the vehicle’s passengers became violent, allegedly assaulting an officer and doing extensive damage to a patrol car.

Aaron Tutt, 38, of Shiprock, N.M., was arrested Sunday evening and is being held in Montezuma County Jail on a $10,000 bond.

Tutt allegedly inflicted a groin injury and lower back strain on Colorado State Patrol Trooper Don Sheppard and kicked out a window in a Cortez Police Department patrol vehicle during his arrest, Sheppard said Tuesday.

"We received a report from dispatch telling police officers to be on the lookout for a possible drunk driver who was all over the road," said Sheppard.

Sheppard said that he stopped the reported vehicle, a 2000 Chevy Impala, about seven miles east of Cortez on U.S. Highway 160.

"Tutt was sitting in the right, rear seat and his wife was driving," Sheppard said. Sheppard added that two young children were also passengers in the vehicle.

Sheppard said that upon contact with the driver, Rita Tutt, he smelled a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath, and her eyes were bloodshot and watery.

The driver, however, refused to perform roadside maneuvers or to take an alcohol test.

Sheppard said that after the driver was arrested, Aaron Tutt became agitated when police would not release the vehicle to him. "He was highly intoxicated and mad because of the arrest and began fighting with police officers," Sheppard added.

Sheppard said that after Tutt was confined by officers, he began kicking the roof, door and window of a Cortez Police Department patrol vehicle.

Damage to the vehicle was estimated at around $500, Sheppard said.

"While trying to confine Tutt in a vehicle for a second time, he began fighting with me and kneed me in the groin," Sheppard said, adding that possible surgery is pending.

Sheppard said that Tutt may be facing charges for second-degree assault to an officer (a class 4 felony), obstructing police, resisting arrest, disregard for the lawful order of a police officer, defacing public property, possession of less that one ounce of marijuana and child abuse.