ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg police officer on parental leave was arrested early Monday on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge, court records show. <\/p>\n
Officer Curtis Wright, 43, was accused by his wife of grabbing her wrist as she tried to take their baby out of the crib on Sunday around 9 p.m., according to his arrest affidavit. <\/p>\n
The arresting officer believed Wright was under the influence of alcohol at the time of his arrest, the report said. <\/p>\n
During an interview with investigators, he admitted to grabbing his wife to stop her from removing the child from the crib, the affidavit said. <\/p>\n
Wright was released on a $1,000 bond and ordered not to have any contact with his wife or child, court records show. <\/p>\n
He was previously arrested in 2016 and accused of battery against a different woman after trying to force her to unlock her phone, court records show. He pleaded not guilty and the charges were dropped by the state attorney\u2019s office. <\/p>\n
Wright is on parental leave until March 6, the St. Petersburg Police Department said in a news release. <\/p>\n
When he returns to work on March 7, he\u2019ll be placed on an administrative assignment. <\/p>\n
Once Wright\u2019s court proceedings are completed, he\u2019ll undergo an internal investigation through the Office of Professional Standards, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg police officer on parental leave was arrested early Monday on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-159731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}