DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A former Daytona Beach police officer won’t face prison time after pleading no contest to charges of groping a handcuffed woman.
A judge on Tuesday ordered 23-year-old Larry Leon Jones to serve two years of probation after he agreed a pre-trial agreement with prosecutors. He’s also required to surrender his law enforcement certificate and cannot work in law enforcement in the future.
State Attorney’s Office spokesman Spencer Hathaway says a felony charge of falsifying records will be dismissed if Jones successfully completes the program.
Jones was a probationary officer when the incident occurred in February 2015, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. A woman who had been arrested and placed in Jones’ patrol car told police he stopped on the way to police headquarters and groped her.