Butler man sentenced to prison for assaulting officer
A Butler man was sentenced to prison in Butler County Court on Thursday, after being charged with assaulting a police officer.
Richard J. Ealy, 26, was sentenced to one year minus one day to two years minus two days in Butler County Prison, with parole after completion of the county's three-month community reintegration program, by Judge William Shaffer, after previously pleading guilty to felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor resisting arrest.
The charges stem from an incident Feb. 10 on West Quarry Street, where officers were attempting to find Ealy in relation to a protection from abuse order violation at Sunbury Estates in Center Township.
Ealy was later found at the home, and when the officers tried to arrest him, he resisted, kicking a trooper in the head.
A full report will appear in the Butler Eagle.
