By Mary Beth Lane
A former Nelsonville police
officer has been sentenced to a 30-day, suspended jail term and ordered to
permanently surrender his peace-officer certification after he admitted
roughing up a teenager he had taken into custody.
Athens County Common Pleas Judge
L. Alan Goldsberry sentenced Randy Secoy, 42, of Amesville, on Friday, county
Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said.
Secoy pleaded guilty to a
reduced charge of persistent disorderly conduct. He initially was charged with
abduction and assault.
Secoy, who was fired from the
Nelsonville Police Department after the incident, took a 15-year-old boy into
custody on March 6 after a fight at a pizza restaurant. At the police station,
Secoy was caught on surveillance tape grabbing the boy underneath his chin and
shoving him against a wall. No charges were filed against the boy, Blackburn
said.
“He was unfit to be a police
officer,” Blackburn said of Secoy. “The best interest of the state was to
ensure that he no longer was a police officer.”