IMPD officer, already suspended, charged with domestic battery

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis constabulary said Monday an serviceman already suspended connected unrelated section violations turned himself successful to authorities Monday aft being charged Friday with home battery.

James Cox, 32, faces a complaint of home artillery successful the beingness of a kid nether property 16, according to online tribunal documents, and a currency enslaved was acceptable Friday astatine $500. News 8 reached retired to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office for tribunal documents successful the case.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said successful a quality merchandise that its officers were sent conscionable aft 9:30 a.m. June 16 to a disturbance involving a imaginable battle successful the 7600 artifact of Blue Willow Drive. That’s successful a lodging subdivision connected the southeast broadside conscionable southbound of the interchange for I-465 and Brookville Road.

In her 911 call, the unfortunate said she’d been thrown onto concrete, aboriginal identified arsenic a structure astatine the home. The charging documents said the incidental upset a 3-year-old child. Surveillance video from the location showed the altercation involving the victim, Cox and the 3-year-old.

The unfortunate told constabulary she was scratched successful the incident, but different was uninjured.

News 8 does not place the victims of home abuse.

The incidental came astir aft the unfortunate and different woman, talking with each other, learned the were “both simultaneously progressive successful a narration with Mr. Cox.”

The merchandise said IMPD’s special-investigations portion handled the case.

The merchandise besides said Cox is simply a five-year-veteran of the department, presently assigned to Southwest District. 

Chief Randal Taylor “will reappraisal the charging affidavit and marque a determination of Officer Cox’s presumption anterior to the decision Officer Cox’s existent suspension,” the merchandise said.

Cox’s jail-booking photograph was not disposable aboriginal Monday evening, IMPD said.