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Drugged-out Florida man arrested after biting off piece of cop’s head at music festival

Sometimes crime bites back.

A drugged-out Florida man was busted following a horrific attack on a sheriff’s deputy at a local music festival — biting a chunk out of the cop’s head, authorities said.

James Anderson, a volunteer at the Vortex Springs SolFest, was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer at the festival Monday, WDHN-TV News reported.

The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office said Anderson was allegedly under the influence of PCP, LSD, ketamine, mushrooms and ecstasy.

A Holmes County, Florida, deputy sheriff had a chunk of his head bitten off by a crazed festival goer last week, cops said. Courtesy of the Holmes County Sheriffâs Office
James Anderson, a volunteer at the Vortex Springs SolFest music festival, is charged with biting off a piece of a deputy’s head. Courtesy of the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office

The deputy, whose name was not released, was on patrol at the event when he got into a scuffle with a rowdy Anderson — who had to be subdued with a Taser after taking the chunk out of the cop’s head.

A grisly photo of the cop’s hideous injury shows a massive gaping hole in the back of his skull.

“There’s always going to be positivity and there’s going to be negativity,” festival goer Autumn Cromer told ABC affiliate WJHG-TV News.

“It’s just part of how the world works and the universe works.

The deputy, whose name was not released, was on patrol at Vortex Springs SolFest when he got into a scuffle with a rowdy Anderson — who had to be subdued with a Taser. Sol Fest/X

“You can’t have good without the bad, but for the most part the festival was nothing but like higher vibrational people, people loving each other and supporting each other.”

The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.