HILLSBORO, Mo., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Six sheriff’s deputies in Missouri are to lose their jobs for getting involved in a barroom brawl.
Jefferson County Sheriff Oliver Boyer said the Sept. 13 altercation at the R-Place Bar & Grill in House Springs was under investigation, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Several R-Place workers and the bar’s owner, David Gaulden, said the off-duty deputies assaulted them.
Boyer refused to release the names of the deputies because they do not yet face criminal charges. But he said the brawl was taped by security cameras.
"We have made a mistake, a very big mistake that has somewhat tarnished the badge that we wear," Boyer said.
Gaulden said the brawl began as a fight between two women -- one of them was one of the dismissed deputies. The deputies allegedly returned to the bar after being escorted out, and attacked Gaulden and his employees.
