Post by WaTcHeR on Aug 25, 2006 13:24:41 GMT -5
08.25.2006 - Mobile police officer resigned Tuesday, ending an internal investigation that was launched after he was arrested by Daphne officers in June and charged with domestic violence, authorities said.
Officer Houston Rucker, 23, of Daphne, turned in his resignation -- citing personal reasons -- Tuesday after more than two years as an officer at the Mobile Police Department, said Officer Eric Gallichant, a police spokesman.
"He no longer works for us," Gallichant said. There had been an internal investigation concerning Rucker's arrest, according to Gallichant, but the investigation was terminated once Rucker quit.
Rucker was charged June 14 with third-degree domestic violence in the form of assault in connection with the beating of his ex-girlfriend, according to Daphne police Capt. David Wilson.
The woman's name was not released.
Rucker, who began at the Mobile police department as a cadet before graduating from the police academy in 2004, is accused of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and beating her up in a parking lot full of witnesses, Wilson said.
Phone messages left for Rucker had not been returned as of Thursday afternoon.
According to the police report, Rucker saw his ex-girlfriend talking on her cell phone shortly before 2:15 a.m. while she was sitting in her car at an Exxon parking lot on U.S. 98, Wilson said.
Rucker became angry that she was talking to another man, took her phone and told the woman to follow him to Bay Front Park if she wanted to get her phone back, Wilson said.
The two were driving in separate vehicles, Wilson said, and on the way to the park, he pulled up next to her, showed her a pistol and told her he was going to kill her.
Once the two were at the park, Rucker threw her phone in the bay, hit her and knocked her to the ground, the police report states.
She got in her car and left, but Rucker followed her back to the Exxon station, where he struck her in the face again, this time in front of witnesses, Wilson said.
Rucker fled the scene before police arrived but was arrested a short while later at his Daphne home, Wilson said.
According to online court records, Rucker was released on a $1,000 bond.
Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 20, court records showed.
Under Alabama law, third-degree domestic violence is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.
www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1156497775182820.xml&coll=3
Officer Houston Rucker, 23, of Daphne, turned in his resignation -- citing personal reasons -- Tuesday after more than two years as an officer at the Mobile Police Department, said Officer Eric Gallichant, a police spokesman.
"He no longer works for us," Gallichant said. There had been an internal investigation concerning Rucker's arrest, according to Gallichant, but the investigation was terminated once Rucker quit.
Rucker was charged June 14 with third-degree domestic violence in the form of assault in connection with the beating of his ex-girlfriend, according to Daphne police Capt. David Wilson.
The woman's name was not released.
Rucker, who began at the Mobile police department as a cadet before graduating from the police academy in 2004, is accused of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and beating her up in a parking lot full of witnesses, Wilson said.
Phone messages left for Rucker had not been returned as of Thursday afternoon.
According to the police report, Rucker saw his ex-girlfriend talking on her cell phone shortly before 2:15 a.m. while she was sitting in her car at an Exxon parking lot on U.S. 98, Wilson said.
Rucker became angry that she was talking to another man, took her phone and told the woman to follow him to Bay Front Park if she wanted to get her phone back, Wilson said.
The two were driving in separate vehicles, Wilson said, and on the way to the park, he pulled up next to her, showed her a pistol and told her he was going to kill her.
Once the two were at the park, Rucker threw her phone in the bay, hit her and knocked her to the ground, the police report states.
She got in her car and left, but Rucker followed her back to the Exxon station, where he struck her in the face again, this time in front of witnesses, Wilson said.
Rucker fled the scene before police arrived but was arrested a short while later at his Daphne home, Wilson said.
According to online court records, Rucker was released on a $1,000 bond.
Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 20, court records showed.
Under Alabama law, third-degree domestic violence is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.
www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1156497775182820.xml&coll=3