TIFTON — A Tifton man was arrested Tuesday and then allegedly kicked the window out of a patrol car while resisting arrest.

Sgt. Steven Laska of the Tifton Police Department said that around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday he stopped a vehicle on Second Street and Magnolia Drive because he noticed the reflective strip on the car’s paper drive-out tag was missing. He said the driver stopped in the parking lot of Krystal restaurant.

Laska said he asked the driver, identified as Aaron Xeron Covin, 29, of Tifton, about the car.

Covin said he had bought it in late February, but could not produce a title or bill of sale.

Laska said he checked Covin’s driver’s license and it came back suspended for failure to appear in court. He said he placed Covin under arrest and searched him, finding an open bottle of vodka in the man’s pocket.

Laska said he took Covin to be placed in the back of a patrol car, but he refused to enter. Laska said Covin was told four times to get in the car but continued to refuse. Laska said he tried to push him inside, but the man resisted.

The officer said he sprayed Covin with pepper spray and was finally able to place the man inside the patrol car.

Laska said that Covin continued to resist however, kicking at the car’s windows. He said the man’s kicking broke the rear driver’s side window off its frame, tearing it 1 1/2 inches from the door and making it unusable.

Covin was charged with interference with government property, driving with a suspended license, an open container violation, obstruction of law enforcement officers without force and driving without a valid tag.