A New Brockton man accused of assaulting New Brockton Police Department Chief Dale Grimes, his assistant and a New Brockton reserve officer pleaded guilty to three assault charges Tuesday.
According to a court official, 49-year-old Timothy Adams of New Brockton entered the pleas in front of Circuit Judge Shannon Clark and received a seven-year sentence. Adams had faced a second-degree assault and two third-degree assault charge for attacking Grimes and two others on May 19, 2011.
According to Grimes’ testimony in a preliminary hearing in June 2011, Adams went to the police department that morning to file a report and left. He later returned, became belligerent with administrative assistant Jennifer Henley and began cursing.
Grimes said he asked Adams to leave, and that is when Adams screamed, “Take me to jail! Take me to jail!”
After being told to leave again, Adams struck Grimes. Henley was struck during the ensuing scuffle, and NBPD reserve officer Christie Motley was kicked while trying to hand Grimes some handcuffs.
Patrick Norris, an investigator with the 12th Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office, said during the incident, Grimes suffered a bite mark to the right chest and injured his shoulder. Motley had been kicked several times in the ribs and arms and complained that “it was hard to breathe.”
Adams also had a third-degree burglary charge pending against him from an unrelated incident and pleaded guilty to that charge.
According to the court official, Clark sentenced Adams to seven years in the second-degree assault and burglary charge. Clark also sentenced Adams to one year in the Coffee County Jail for the two third-degree assault charges.
The sentences will run concurrently, and Adams will be given credit for time served.
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