DEL.ICIO.USAtlanta cop arrested after fight with other officers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, January 26, 2009
An Atlanta police officer has been arrested on misdemeanor battery charges after getting into an altercation with two other officers — one of them the mother of his child — at the Police Department’s headquarters.
Ricardo Moyet, 30, was arrested a couple of days after the Jan. 14 incident, according to Atlanta police.
He has been assigned to desk duty and, for now, has been stripped of his law enforcement powers, said Atlanta police spokeswoman Sgt. Lisa Keyes.
The other two officers, Shannon Durham and Stephen McKesey, are still on normal duty.
The fight happened about 8:30 p.m. in a parking lot outside City Hall East on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Police Department is housed.
Moyet and Durham, 27, were off duty and meeting to exchange custody of their young son, according to a police report.
While Durham was putting her son in his child seat, Moyet pulled her from the vehicle and “started yelling baseless statements,” Durham told police.
She tried to ignore him and continued putting her son in the seat, but Moyet pulled her from the car again, spun her around and pushed her into a vehicle, Durham reported.
Moyet left after a brief argument. Soon after, McKesey, a 31-year-old investigator, came to the parking lot and asked Durham if she was all right.
Moyet returned and accused McKesey of “coming between him and his family,” Durham reported.
Moyet punched McKesey in the face, police said, and Durham stepped between them. But when McKesey tried to get his bag, Moyet hit him in the face again, prompting a fight between the two men.
Both suffered some scrapes and bruises, but avoided serious injury, Keyes said.
Durham and McKesey are not facing criminal charges.
Moyet has been a police officer since 2003.
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