WHITEHALL — A two-time felon was jailed Tuesday after he allegedly injured a state parole officer who found him to have crack cocaine during a routine check of the felon’s home, police said. Karim A. Thaxton, 38, was charged with felony counts of assault and tampering with physical evidence and misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest after state parole officers visited his home at 205 Broadway on Tuesday, according to Whitehall Police. Parole officers found him to have crack, and he tried to eat the drugs to keep the officers from seizing it when a fight ensued, Whitehall Police Sgt. Richard LaChapelle said. One of the officers suffered a broken finger during the fight, but police were able to seize at least some of the crack as well as $500 in cash that Thaxton had, LaChapelle said. The names of the parole officers involved were not released. A spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, for whom parole officers work, described the injury as “minor” and said the officer was expected back to work on Feb. 6. The agency did not comment further. Thaxton has a long criminal record that includes two felony convictions, including one for a brutal 1997 home invasion robbery of a 67-year-old woman in her Kingsbury home and a 2012 drug conviction in Saratoga County, for which he was paroled in November, 2016. He is still on parole in that case and was also charged with violating parole in light of Tuesday’s violence and drug seizure. Whitehall Police officers David Gebo and Katie Paddock made the arrest.