The Virginian-Pilot
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NEWPORT NEWS
A police officer was charged this morning with assaulting a woman in her home, according to a police news release.
Johnnie K. Hicks, 30, was charged with one count of assault and battery and one count of brandishing a firearm, police wrote in the release. Hicks was not on duty at the time of the incident.
Officers were called shortly before 2 a.m. to the 400 block of Youngs Mill Lane on a report of a person with a gun, police wrote. A man at the home had assaulted a 30-year-old woman inside then brandished a gun.
Hicks has been with the Police Department since November 2007 and is assigned to the South Precinct High Impact Patrol Unit, police wrote. He is on paid administrative leave while criminal and internal investigations continue.
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