A suspended Metropolitan Police Department serviceman admitted connected Wednesday to strangling his girlfriend past year.
Chandler Pike, 30, was arrested successful November aft constabulary said helium strangled and slapped his live-in girlfriend, besides a Metro officer, and enactment a weapon to his caput successful beforehand of her.
Pike pleaded blameworthy to a felony number of artillery by strangulation and a gross misdemeanor number of aiming a firearm astatine a person.
According to plea presumption work successful tribunal by District Judge Jacqueline Bluth, Pike and prosecutors person agreed to probation and Pike agreed to termination from Metro.
If helium successfully completes the presumption of his sentence, helium whitethorn retreat his plea to the felony count, which volition beryllium dismissed, and the gross misdemeanor volition stand, said the judge.
An apprehension study said Pike “did not like” that his woman would beryllium location precocious aft moving a hectic Thanksgiving shift.
The unfortunate reported that she was strangled and slapped. Police noted successful a study that her ears were bleeding. She told them that helium squeezed her cervix truthful hard that she concisely mislaid consciousness.
Pike’s woman told constabulary that helium did not constituent a weapon astatine her, but arsenic portion of his plea, helium admitted that helium did.
He was hired by Metro successful 2020 and assigned to the Enterprise Area Command’s Community Safety Division. A spokesperson said Wednesday that helium is connected suspension of constabulary without pay.
His sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 30.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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