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An Aurora stable hand and horse trainer will do community service work as his punishment for injuring a Naperville police sergeant during an August drunken driving arrest.

Miguel Torres-Herrera, 24, of the 1200 block of Marshall Boulevard, avoided jail or prison time after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an Aug. 2 incident near 83rd Street and Aero Drive during which he struck the sergeant in the chest and kicked another officer in the stomach, according to DuPage County court records.

Torres-Herrera was originally arrested on eight criminal and traffic charges but pleaded guilty in November to a felony count of resisting or obstructing a police officer causing injury and a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence, records said.

Judge John J. Kinsella ordered Torres-Herrera Thursday to serve 20 days in the Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program, known as SWAP, as his penalty for resisting police. He is to perform 40 hours of community service work for the DUI.

Torres-Herrera was also sentenced two years of probation, instructed to write a letter of apology to the sergeant and mandated to pay $2,959 in court costs, records said.

Torres-Herrera injured the police sergeant when he struck him in the chest, “causing a torn pectoral muscle,” after he was pulled over for driving off the roadway and doing 65 mph in a 35 mph zone, according to a police report. He then “kicked (another officer) in the stomach,” the report stated. Neither officer was seriously injured.

Torres-Herrera has no prior criminal record in DuPage County. He could not be reached for comment Friday.

wbird@tribpub.com