MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis police say an off-duty officer
has been charged with assault after a fight with his girlfriend.
Police said Friday that 47-year-old Officer Lazarus Settle
was arrested and charged with simple assault, driving under the influence and
refusal to submit to a blood alcohol test.
Police said an argument between Settle and his girlfriend
began when they disagreed about the volume of the car radio.
Settle allegedly forced his girlfriend out of the vehicle
after she took his keys. Police said they began fighting over the keys, then
fell down a hill, sustaining minor cuts and scratches in the process.
Settles has been relieved of duty pending an investigation.
Online court records did not show booking or lawyer information for Settle on
Friday afternoon.
Hobart PD officer charged after firing shotgun in standoff
at home
A Center Township man identified as a former Hobart Police
officer and Porter County Animal Control Officer was taken into custody on
Wednesday after he barricaded himself into his home and made death threats
against a negotiator, the Porter County Sheriff’s Police said.
Eric Moser, 41, of 1355 Gilleevan Drive, has been charged
with intimidation and criminal recklessness, both Class C felonies punishable
by a term of two to eight years; and with resisting law enforcement, a Class
midemeanor.
According to police, at 8:05 p.m. officers were dispatched
to Moser’s home to conduct “a welfare check on a suicidal subject with a
weapon.” As they were approaching the residence, Moser fired a 12-gauge shotgun
out the back door, police said, and the PCSP Emergency Response Team was
mustered and deployed.
At some point during negotiations, police said, Moser made
“death threats” to the officer speaking with him.
Moser did, however, finally agree to exit his home but then
refused to comply with officers’ commands and so was “shot with less than
lethal rounds”: essentially foam-tipped projectiles.
At that point Moser became compliant, police said.
Moser was treated at Porter Regional Hospital, then
transported to Porter County Jail.
No officers were injured in the incident, PCSP Sgt. Larry
LaFlower told the Chesterton Tribune today.