Suffolk police say the suspect arrested in last Saturday’s attack on a police officer is the same man who was arrested the week before under a different name in Portsmouth.

Joseph Louis Staton, 43, was recorded as 52-year-old Albert Leeamzie Riddick when he was arrested in Portsmouth on May 12 on charges of stealing an iPhone from a vehicle at Portsmouth City Park.

According to a news release from Portsmouth, concerned citizens in the area saw a man walking around pulling on parked vehicle door handles in a parking lot near the boat ramp and golf course at the park. It happened just after 1 p.m.

Police officers responded and discovered the man had allegedly removed an iPhone from one of the vehicles and had driven there in a vehicle not registered to him.

He was charged with one count of grand larceny and one count of vehicle trespass.

Merely a week later, Staton was arrested and charged with attempted murder of a police officer and numerous other felonies in connection with the assault of Officer James Winslow.

The officer had conducted a traffic stop in the 1000 block of Nansemond Parkway after spotting a vehicle reported to be stolen from Norfolk.

The driver immediately bailed from the vehicle, and Winslow initiated a foot chase. Officers arriving to assist found the officer unconscious in the woods with traumatic injuries to his head and face. After a massive manhunt, police arrested Staton.

“When Staton was arrested on Saturday, he gave a possibly bogus name, the name of Albert Riddick,” city spokeswoman Debbie George said Friday. “Police felt like they knew who he was.”

After allegedly signing the fake name to a fingerprint card, he was charged with forgery and uttering of a public document, George added.

“Investigation revealed he had possibly used that name in other arrests in other Hampton Roads cities,” George said. “Police also determined the name he was using was an actual individual, but that individual is deceased.”

He is charged in Suffolk with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, attempting to remove a firearm from a law enforcement officer, forgery of a public record, uttering a forged public record, malicious wounding of a police officer, aggravated malicious wounding, shoot, stab, cut or wound, possession of stolen property, burglary, third offense petit larceny and two counts of grand larceny.

George said Friday afternoon that Winslow has been moved out of the intensive care unit.