HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The American who stoked U.S.-Pakistan tensions by killing two Pakistanis in Lahore was arrested in Colorado in a parking spot dispute, police say.
Raymond Davis, 36, was arrested Saturday in Highlands Ranch by Douglas County Sheriff's deputies who charged him with misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault and disorderly conduct, The Denver Post reported. Davis allegedly got into an argument with a 50-year-old man about a parking space outside an Einstein Bagels shop and the confrontation turned physical, the sheriff's office said.
The Post said Davis and his family had moved to the Denver suburb in January, just before he traveled to Lahore where he killed the two men he said were trying to rob him.
U.S. officials contended Davis, a former U.S. Special Forces member who reportedly owns a security firm doing contract work for the U.S. government, was entitled to diplomatic immunity. But Pakistani officials didn't free him until March after the victims' families granted him a pardon in exchange for $2.34 million in compensation.
The U.S. government said it did not make the payment.
