A 17-year-old male confessed to punching a female police officer during an assault in downtown McAllen, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Channel 5 News.

Alexander Andree Flores was identified as the individual seen assaulting the officer on Sunday at around 2 a.m. near the intersection of South 17th Street and Beaumont Avenue in multiple viral videos.

One other individual, 18-year-old Sergio Contreras Sandoval, was also arrested in connection with the assault.

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According to the criminal complaint, McAllen police officers responded to a “big crowd of people screaming” at the 200 block of South 17th Street Sunday at around 2:06 a.m. where they encountered “multiple males fist fighti

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