[WA] Officer Galusha had wife in headlock, spit on bouncer

Mar. 11, 2008
KENNEWICK, Washington
A West Richland police officer was arrested early Monday for allegedly assaulting his wife and a bouncer at a Kennewick bar. Brian Galusha, 38, of Kennewick, was booked into the Benton County jail on suspicion of domestic violence assault and fourth-degree assault. Witnesses told officers Galusha grabbed his 24-year-old wife by her hair, then put her in some sort of a headlock, said Kennewick police Sgt. Brian Swartswalter. As a bouncer tried to stop the fight, another man in the bar punched Galusha in the face, Swartswalter said. The bouncer tried to help Galusha, whose mouth was bleeding, but Galusha spit blood on the bouncer...

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