Threatening two Police officers with a machete and assaulting them has earned a homeless man a two-year prison sentence and three further years probation.

Robert Damon Green, 25, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty onTuesday to assaulting two Police officers, escaping custody, violently resisting arrest and possessing a machete and a knife on January 6, last year near the Ducking Stool, North Shore Road, Pembroke.

Police saw Green running near the road and stopped him on suspicion of robbery around 8 p.m. that night, Crown counsel Shakira Dill told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.

?Police Sgt. Evans attempted to grip (Green?s) arm but he pulled his arm away and pushed Sgt. Evans with both arms in the chest. He ran south on the road,? Ms Dill said.

?There was a violent struggle. He reached for a machete and a knife that were contained in the pants of the defendant. He was subdued and arrested.?

Green told Police ?f***! You got me? and said the reason he was carrying the weapons was ?in case you guys f*** with me.?

Mr. Warner sentenced Green to six months on each count of assault, resisting arrest and escaping custody.

Green was sentenced to two years for possessing the machete and two years for possessing the knife.

All of these sentences are to run concurrently.

Green also pleaded guilty to stealing a car and possessing a knife in Pembroke on January 18, 2004.

Ms Dill said that Monica Philips had parked her car outside her Angle Street home at 7 p.m. on January 15, 2004.

Her car disappeared the next day.

However, on January 17, 2004, she was driving in Middletown when she saw her car with different licence plates. She called Police but the car ? and its driver ? had disappeared by the time they arrived.

The next day, Police saw the car parked on King Street with two people inside. After several attempts to get away from Police, the car door was opened and Green came out of the car with a knife in his left hand, Ms Dill said.

Mr. Warner sentenced Green to one year for stealing the car and another year for possessing the knife to run concurrently.

But Green pleaded not guilty to stealing a wallet in Devonshire that contained $200, property of David Livingston Darrell, on December 3, 2004.

His trial for this offence is scheduled for March 14, 2005.

Green did not have to enter a plea for the indictable offence of intending to do grievous bodily harm (GBH) to Winslow E. Williams and unlawfully wounded him in Sandys on June 16, 2004.

Green?s co-accused in the GBH charge, Eugene Crockwell, was also remanded to appear for mention on January 25, 2005.