{"id":135549,"date":"2026-03-11T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:06","slug":"pittsburgh-police-officer-now-charged-with-assault-after-off-duty-fight-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135549\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police officer now charged with assault after off-duty fight \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 A Pittsburgh police officer is now facing a criminal charge after an off-duty fight at a bar in Pleasant Hills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Online court records show Richard Dilimone Jr. is charged with one count of felony aggravated assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Dilimone has been on administrative leave since the bar fight in early February. The off-duty officers were out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/chief-responds-bar-fight-involving-off-duty-pittsburgh-police-officers-cprb-investigating\/BJDD6KMKS5FURCJQ4CWY4QDB7E\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/chief-responds-bar-fight-involving-off-duty-pittsburgh-police-officers-cprb-investigating\/BJDD6KMKS5FURCJQ4CWY4QDB7E\/\">celebrating a promotion<\/a> when the incident happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 Chief Investigator Rick Earle previously spoke to Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala, who confirmed that one of the off-duty officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/investigates\/11-investigates-exclusive-da-gives-update-investigation-into-fight-involving-pittsburgh-officers\/PMJQLK6NCVAR3ASM72TSCJIIDI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/investigates\/11-investigates-exclusive-da-gives-update-investigation-into-fight-involving-pittsburgh-officers\/PMJQLK6NCVAR3ASM72TSCJIIDI\/\">used a beer bottle during the fight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">RELATED COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/investigates\/11-investigates-exclusive-da-gives-update-investigation-into-fight-involving-pittsburgh-officers\/PMJQLK6NCVAR3ASM72TSCJIIDI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/investigates\/11-investigates-exclusive-da-gives-update-investigation-into-fight-involving-pittsburgh-officers\/PMJQLK6NCVAR3ASM72TSCJIIDI\/\" target=\"_blank\">11 Investigates Exclusive: DA gives update on investigation into fight involving Pittsburgh officers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/3-pittsburgh-police-officers-back-job-after-off-duty-bar-fight-1-still-leave\/LG7HJLN5NJEGBELBJ3NWWIQBDY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/3-pittsburgh-police-officers-back-job-after-off-duty-bar-fight-1-still-leave\/LG7HJLN5NJEGBELBJ3NWWIQBDY\/\">Channel 11\u2019s Gabriella DeLuca<\/a> spoke with the attorney for the man who was hit over the head with a beer bottle. The man is reportedly \u201cat a loss for words about what happened that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Three other officers were also placed on administrative leave while the incident was being investigated. They\u2019ve since returned to work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 is working to obtain court documents to learn more about the charge filed. Check back for updates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh police officer is now facing a criminal charge after an off-duty fight at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4862,52827,1404,62486,62485,73,75,74,43077,206],"class_list":["post-135549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-bar-fight","tag-beer-bottle","tag-felony-aggravated-assault","tag-off-duty-police-bar-fight","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pleasant-hills","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}