A 20-year-old man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of third-degree assault after an incident at the downtown Olympia transit center.
About 4:10 p.m. May 19, on an Intercity Transit bus that was approaching the center, a man began yelling and causing a commotion on the bus, Police Lt. Paul Lower said.
The bus driver told him to stop and called for assistance, Lower said.
After the bus stopped, and both the driver and the man were exiting it, the man allegedly punched the driver in the arm then spat on his face and chest.
A security guard intervened, but the suspect said he had a gun and knife, then hit the security guard in the shoulder with a glass bottle.
The driver and guard were not seriously injured, Lower said. Assaulting a bus driver is a Class C felony, Lower added.
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