RAMROD KEY, Fla. ā Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested an Iowa police officer on two misdemeanor battery charges Monday evening after authorities accused him of punching his girlfriend outside of a bar.
Charles Leroy Dailey, 40, is listed in Monroe County Sheriffās Office arrest records as a police officer in Clarinda, Iowa.
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A social media post from the Clarinda Police Department shows Dailey being sworn in as an officer in Jan. 2021.
According to an arrest report, deputies responded to Boondocks Grille and Draft House on Ramrod Key just after 6:30 p.m. after an employee called authorities to report that a woman was yelling āhe just punched meā and holding her face while in the barās back parking lot.
The report states that Dailey became āagitatedā after his girlfriend asked to check his phone, because she believed he was talking to other women.
Deputy Hunter Buscemi wrote that surveillance video showed Dailey punching the woman in the face āwithout provocation.ā
The victim āwas seen dropping what appeared to be a phone as she fell onto the pea rockā and had āswelling of her left (side of her) face from being punched and abrasions on her legs from falling onto the pea rock,ā Buscemi wrote.
Dailey was set to be arraigned in Monroe County court on March 3, according to jail records.
Clarinda police Chief Keith Brothers told Local 10 News Tuesday afternoon that he had been made aware of the arrest.
āThat concerns me greatly and that disappoints me,ā Brothers said. āI am a believer in due process. Weāll get the due process situation going when Officer Dailey returns to Iowa.ā
Brothers said Dailey remains employed by the police department and the agency will initiate an internal investigation upon his return to the state.
It was my honor and privilege to introduce Officer Mikayla Marcum & Officer Charles Dailey as the two most recent additions to the Clarinda Police Department at this afternoonās city council meeting. Officers Marcum & Dailey were administered the oath of position and sworn in . pic.twitter.com/ZMVfL7c2b4
— Clarinda Iowa Police Department (@ClarindaPolice) January 13, 2021