ARNOLD, Pa. — The former police chief of a suburban
Pittsburgh town is charged with assaulting a fellow officer and has been
demoted from his detective job and suspended from the department.
State police say 43-year-old Arnold police Sgt. Eric Doutt
shoved an officer who responded to a domestic dispute call at his home last
month and opened the door of a police cruiser to let his wife out after she'd
been taken into custody.
Doutt had been the Arnold police chief until he was replaced
a few months ago.
A criminal complaint says the officers called to the scene
decided not to arrest Doutt immediately. Charges were filed Tuesday.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Doutt. He
declined comment to the Valley News Dispatch of Tarentum (http://bit.ly/LnwOxs
) on Wednesday.