SOUR LAKE, Texas — A suspect accused of severely beating a Sour Lake police officer on Monday night was previously sentenced to 11 months for resisting arrest, and two years each for two counts of assault on a police or probation officer in Kentucky.
In March 2015, Bradley Joseph Pruitt was indicted in Warren County, KY, on a number of charges.
Pruitt is accused of severely beating a Sour Lake police officer, William McKeon, Jr., 59 according to officials.
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He was indicted on two counts of third-degree assault, second-degree fleeing or evading police, resisting arrest, menacing and third-degree terroristic threatening according to Circuit Court Clerks Office in Warren County, KY.
He was sentenced to two years each for the assaults on a police or probation officer, and got 11 months for resisting arrest. The other charges against Pruitt were dismissed according to the office.
All the sentences were served concurrently, leaving Pruitt behind bars for two years total according to the office.
Pruitt was also wanted by the Las Cruces, New Mexico District Attorney Office for failure to appear on 'an original case' of possession of a firearm or destructive device according to a Hardin County Sheriff's Office news release. He is being held without bond on that out of state charge.
