A Fulton County Grand Jury has indicted a former Atlanta police officer accused of assaulting a suspect, the District Attorney said Wednesday.
Nicholas J. Dimauro, 32, was indicted on two counts of aggravated battery, two counts of violation of oath by a public officer and one count of aggravated assault for the 2010 attack, DA Paul Howard’s office said.
The indictment alleges that in 2010, Robert Wormley was returning to his home at 3 a.m. on Woods Drive when he was approached by Officer Dimaur, Howard said. Dimauro claimed that Wormley was illegally walking on a public street and ran when he tried to question him.
Dimauro apprehended Wormley behind a house on Hood Street, where the officer allegedly hit and kicked a man on the ground, later identified as Wormley, for 15 minutes, according to prosecutors. A resident of the home allegedly witnessed the assault.
Wormley suffered abrasions to his face, cuts to the back of his head requiring five staples, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a collapsed lung, Howard said.
Following another incident involving an alleged assault in 2011, Dimauro was fired in December 2011. Two years later, he was he was reinstated, with back pay, to his job by the Atlanta Civil Service Board, the DA said. Dimauro retired from APD shortly after being reinstated.
A trial date for Dimauro has not yet been set.
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