The disgraced Pike Couty Deputy who pepper-sprayed and repeatedly beat a restrained suspect isn’t headed to prison just yet.
Disgraced deputy Jeremy Mooney’s lawyers asked the court to postpone his sentence, and it agreed to move it to March, despite the fact that prosecutors say Mooney is a menace to society and needs to be behind bars.
The 48-year-old man’s violent assault on a suspect at the Pike County Sheriff’s Office back in 2019 was all captured on video.
After placing a man in a violent prisoner restraint chair and securing his hands, Mooney spent an hour assaulting the man. He dragged him outside and pepper-sprayed him, tipped the chair back on the curb, and pepper-sprayed him again.
Mooney punched the victim at least 11 times with enough force to break his own hand. Pike County Sheriff’s Office Supervisor, William Stansberry, Jr., 47, also pleaded guilty in the case for failing to stop the assault.
Mooney was found guilty back in August after a 2-day trial and could face 15 years in prison for his crime.
