PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — A suspended Pawtucket police
officer has been sentenced to anger management and 20 hours of community
service in a domestic abuse case. WJAR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/10WrQgv ) that
Officer Stephen Ricco pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct Wednesday in
Providence District Court. He also was ordered to pay more than $90 in court
costs. Simple assault and other disorderly conduct charges were dismissed.
The disorderly conduct conviction will be erased from his
record if he stays out of trouble for a year. Ricco was arrested in February.
His ex-girlfriend told police she was pregnant with his child when he assaulted
her for refusing to get an abortion. She also said Ricco told her to kill him
with his service weapons. Ricco remains suspended with pay pending a police
internal affairs investigation.