Ex-Police Chief Accused of Using Taser on Wife

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Ex-Police Chief Accused of Using Taser on Wife

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Story Created: Apr 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM CST

Story Updated: Apr 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM CST

OAKWOOD, Texas (AP) - The chief of a small Central Texas town's police department has been fired and jailed for allegedly using a Taser gun on his wife.

Former Oakwood police chief Oly Ivy is in Leon County Jail in Centerville on Wednesday, charged with aggravated assault. Bond is $100,000.

Ivy, 30, was arrested near Palestine on Monday. The city council fired him that night.

Ivy's attorney, Charley Johnson, tells KXXV-TV in Waco that his client "is taking these allegations very seriously." He says he intends for Ivy to "be treated the same as anybody in this situation."

Ivy was hired in February to be the lone full-time officer in the town of 500 residents about 100 miles southeast of Dallas. The department has two reserve officers.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Sunday, Apr 12 at 4:26 AM carlos wrote ...

some of these cops u give them the power and it goes 2 ther head

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