“It’s becoming a
disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
GALVESTON - An off-duty Houston police officer is accused of exposing his
pierced genitals to a group of men and women at a Galveston bar and later
stabbing a man in the group, a Galveston police spokesman said Thursday.
Miles Stedman Dumas, 24, who joined the police force in September, was
suspended with pay pending the outcome of an investigation by the Houston
police internal affairs division, police spokesman Victor
Senties said.
Dumas and two other men are accused of assaulting two men outside the
Tsunami bar at 2314 Strand, Galveston police Lt. Michael Gray
said. Dumas is accused of stabbing one man in the torso. One of the men with
Dumas is accused of pistol-whipping another man.
Colton Hadaway, 22, of Bryan was taken to the University of
Texas Medical Branch for treatment of a broken jaw, and a second
man, who asked police to withhold his name, was treated for a stab wound, Gray
said.
Police charged Dumas with assault with a deadly weapon and indecent
exposure. Michael Brady,
22, of Houston, who accompanied Dumas, was charged with failure to report a
felony. Police were in the process of issuing a warrant for a third man
suspected of pistol-whipping Hadaway, Gray said.
Dumas was released after posting bail of $42,000 and Brady on $7,500 bail,
sheriff's spokesman Major Ray
Tuttoilmondo said.
If convicted of aggravated assault, Dumas could be sentenced to up to 20
years in prison and fined up to $10,000.
Gray said Dumas had been drinking before he exposed his pierced genitals
sometime before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
"One of the men didn't take kindly to Mr. Dumas exposing his genitals
to the women and confronted him," Gray said.
The bar staff interrupted the confrontation and escorted Dumas outside the
bar, he said.
Dumas and his companions later confronted Hadaway and the other victim
outside the bar.
"That's when it escalated to pistol-whipping and a stabbing,"
Gray said.