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Cop suspended after allegedly assaulting a fellow officer

Police officer fired after allegedly assaulting another cop she was dating

Background: The San Antonio Police Department Station (Google Maps). Inset: Cassidy Costa (LinkedIn).

Two Texas police officers are out of a job after an investigation into an alleged domestic violence incident while they were dating.

According to local ABC affiliate KSAT, Cassidy Costa, whose age was not provided, was fired from the San Antonio Police Department after she was put on indefinite suspension on April 30. KSAT stated that according to police records, Costa — a three-year veteran of the force — lost her job due to rules violations and showing a lack of good character. Costa was accused of assaulting another former SAPD officer, Patrick Earles, who reportedly told another unnamed colleague in the SAPD what Costa did. The SAPD said Costa”s conduct was “detrimental to effective law enforcement and the needs of the San Antonio Police Department.”

However, Earles was interviewed by the SAPD’s Special Victims Unit and gave them a conflicting story.

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Records obtained by KENS, a local CBS affiliate, stated that the SAPD was first notified of a “family violence incident” involving Costa and Earles after a third, unnamed officer received texts from Earles about what happened. According to the records, Earles wrote to the other officer, “You know how stupid it is that I had to go to work and lie about how I got a black eye?” Referring to Costa, he told the other officer, “Cuz she busted my eye open.”

According to the records, Earles told the other officer that Costa “sometimes shoves her hands in my mouth and pulls down in my lip from between my lip and gums [too] so I can stop talking.”

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