By The Associated Press
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Two police officers from New Mexico are wanted in a bar fight in which one of them stomped a bouncer’s head, Fort Smith police said Thursday.
Albuquerque officers Russell E. Carter, 24, and Kenneth Ronzone, 27, are accused in second-degree battery warrants issued Wednesday of fighting with two bouncers early Oct. 26, said Cpl. Mikeal Bates, a Fort Smith police spokesman.
At one point, bouncer Robert Dan Beshears was on the ground and Ronzone stomped his head, according to a police report. Ronzone hit the other bouncer, Jason Tufts, in the face when he tried to help Beshears, the report states.
Carter and Ronzone claimed the bouncers were the aggressors, according to the report.
The officers were placed on paid leave Wednesday and are cooperating with the investigation, said John Walsh, an Albuquerque police spokesman.
They were told to stay out of the bar for the duration of their stay.