A corrections officer for a state prison in Polk County was charged Monday with assaulting a woman after a witness saw the couple fighting on the side of a road, deputies said.
Johnny Tucker, 28, a Florida Department of Corrections officer who works at the Polk Correctional Institute, was charged with battery domestic violence, said Carrie Eleazer, spokeswoman for the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
A man and his wife were driving south on North Combee Road when they saw a woman fall out of the passenger side of a white Jeep Cherokee that was parked on the side of the road, according to an affidavit said.
Tucker came out of the passenger door and fell on top of the victim, deputies said. The witnesses pulled over and saw Tucker sit on top of the woman with his forearm on her neck, the affidavit said.
When the witness got out of his vehicle and confronted Tucker, he grabbed the victim by her hair and pushed her into the Jeep, the affidavit said.
As Tucker drove off, the witness got his license plate number, the affidavit said.
The tag led a deputy to Tucker's home, where he confronted Tucker and the victim, who both said they had an argument but it was not physical, the affidavit said.
The deputy got sworn statements from the witnesses and returned to Tucker's home and arrested him, the affidavit said.
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