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Metro officer faces charge
By SHEILA BURKE
Staff Writer
A Metro police officer has been accused of violating an order of protection and taken into custody. The latest charge follows a separate arrest on criminal charges relating to domestic violence last week.
Officer Damian Hunt, 26, was arrested Saturday in Jackson, Tenn., at the home of relatives, by Madison County authorities, police spokesman Don Aaron said.
''The official charge is criminal contempt, but the underlying matter is violating an order of protection,'' Aaron said.
Hunt is accused of violating an order of protection taken out by his girlfriend by contacting her mother at the mother's place of employment.
He is also accused of contacting the girlfriend via a friend.
The order of protection prohibits Hunt from contacting the girlfriend, Monica Carpenter, even indirectly, police said.
Hunt was accused of aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping Aug. 28 after Carpenter told police that Hunt threatened her and a cousin with a firearm, police records show. Carpenter also told police Hunt handcuffed her against her will for about 30 minutes and threatened to ''kill her or arrest her,'' records show.
Hunt's police powers have been stripped, Aaron said, and he will be facing a departmental hearing upon the conclusion of an investigation by the department's Office of Professional Accountability.
Hunt also was arrested in December on a charge of domestic assault. That charge, police records show, was dropped when Hunt's girlfriend recanted statements she made earlier to police.
http://tennessean.com/local/archives/02/09/21950628.shtml?Element_ID=21950628
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By SHEILA BURKE
Staff Writer
A Metro police officer has been accused of violating an order of protection and taken into custody. The latest charge follows a separate arrest on criminal charges relating to domestic violence last week.
Officer Damian Hunt, 26, was arrested Saturday in Jackson, Tenn., at the home of relatives, by Madison County authorities, police spokesman Don Aaron said.
''The official charge is criminal contempt, but the underlying matter is violating an order of protection,'' Aaron said.
Hunt is accused of violating an order of protection taken out by his girlfriend by contacting her mother at the mother's place of employment.
He is also accused of contacting the girlfriend via a friend.
The order of protection prohibits Hunt from contacting the girlfriend, Monica Carpenter, even indirectly, police said.
Hunt was accused of aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping Aug. 28 after Carpenter told police that Hunt threatened her and a cousin with a firearm, police records show. Carpenter also told police Hunt handcuffed her against her will for about 30 minutes and threatened to ''kill her or arrest her,'' records show.
Hunt's police powers have been stripped, Aaron said, and he will be facing a departmental hearing upon the conclusion of an investigation by the department's Office of Professional Accountability.
Hunt also was arrested in December on a charge of domestic assault. That charge, police records show, was dropped when Hunt's girlfriend recanted statements she made earlier to police.
http://tennessean.com/local/archives/02/09/21950628.shtml?Element_ID=21950628
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878