Spring Hill officer arrested on
domestic assault, false imprisonment charges
SPRING HILL, TN (WSMV) -
An officer with the Spring Hill
Police Department has been arrested on domestic assault and false imprisonment
charges.
Officer Eric Pinkerton was
arrested by the Columbia Police Department and was taken into custody at the
Spring Hill Police Department on Friday.
The police department fired
Pinkerton after the arrest.
"This is the second
incident Columbia Police Department has been involved with," Lt. Joey Gideon
said.
This is Pinkerton's second
arrest on domestic violence charges since January.
"SHPD notified us on Aug.
9 that one of their officers, Eric Pinkerton, had been involved in a domestic
disturbance here in Columbia with his wife, so our Special Victims Unit got
involved," Gideon said.
Pinkerton was told after this
January arrest to stay out of trouble for a year and his case would be
dismissed.
Gideon said the investigation
is still ongoing.
"They are still collecting
evidence, but the allegations were that he grabbed her by the hair and kept her
from leaving the house for a short period of time," Gideon said.
Pinkerton had worked for the
department since Oct. 27, 2008.