BOSTON — A Tyngsboro man faces seven criminal charges including strangulation after he allegedly put a bouncer in a headlock and then turned on the Boston police officers who arrived to break up the fight outside a Stuart Street establishment in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Police say the patron, later identified as Corkum, became enraged as he was being shown the door and put the bouncer in a headlock that restricted the victim's airway. When District A-1 officers arrived and tried to speak with the suspect, he refused — and instead allegedly challenged the officers to a physical altercation, yelling and threatening to physically harm them.

Officers repeatedly tried to de-escalate the situation, according to the release, but Corkum allegedly continued his aggressive behavior and eventually shoved one of the officers in the chest.

The arrest itself was anything but routine. As officers tried to take Corkum into custody, he violently resisted, kicking, punching and elbowing the officers during a struggle that the department described as a lengthy physical confrontation. Additional units had to be called to the scene before the suspect was subdued and brought in.

Corkum is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on charges of strangulation, assault by means of a dangerous weapon (to wit, a shod foot), assault and battery, assault and battery on a police officer, malicious destruction of property, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Stuart Street, on the edge of Boston's Theater District, sits in one of the city's busiest late-night corridors, a stretch of bars and venues that keeps District A-1 officers occupied on weekend nights.

Corkum has not been convicted, and the charges remain allegations.