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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23fca27277b2dbd8469d3614f61e1e4a wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong><br>Officer Carri Carrico of the Buckeye police department in Arizona has been indicted on assault charges after video showed her shoving and slapping a handcuffed woman who was nine months pregnant </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-235a0a3bfcf7fc45beb6670ead4c90b3 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Surveillance video from the horrifying incident shows police Officer Carri Carrico, 47, allegedly assaulting the 21-year-old victim at the booking facility in Buckeye, Arizona</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e86ca1d319880e72fbbbd4367e2ff69b wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Carrico shoved the heavily pregnant woman against a wall and dragged her to a bench, video recording of the incident showed, she&#8217;s then seen swinging her arm toward the woman&#8217;s head</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24f0fdd9e0f25b80293a4070c25551f8 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>The pregnant woman who was taken to the hospital and allegedly diagnosed with a contusion, and evaluated for a concussion, <strong>told investigators that Carrico hit her</strong> </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-41578b3cc741618a6f6f0a50b6b03813 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Officer Carrico arrested the woman for reckless driving after a traffic stop in Buckeye on November 1, 2025 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9e253cd539e10efbf780a200298fcf1b wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Victim claimed the officer was hostile during the stop, made demeaning comments during a pat-down search </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dfb5f8519d099f7195700db5e33c4a0c wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Body camera footage captured Carrico calling the woman &#8216;gross,&#8217; &#8216;nasty,&#8217; and &#8216;an a**,&#8217; as well as threatening that her attitude would determine whether she went to jail </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-97d7cfb4615f6cd35a237fabad729fde wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Carrico<strong>&#8216;s pled not gui</strong>lty, but resigned from the Buckeye Police Dept earlier this month after a grand jury indicted her on two counts of aggravated assault on May 27</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Officer Carri Carrico of the Buckeye Police Dept. in Arizona, has been indicted after she was caught on surveillance camera [photo], shoving and slapping a handcuffed a heavily pregnant woman </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A female police officer has been indicted on assault charges after video showed her shoving and slapping a handcuffed woman who was nine months pregnant. <br>Surveillance video from the horrifying incident shows Officer Carri Carrico, 47, allegedly assaulting the 21-year-old victim at the booking facility in Buckeye, Arizona.<br>Carrico shoved the heavily pregnant woman against a wall and dragged her to a bench, video recording of the incident showed.<br>She is then seen swinging her arm toward the woman&#8217;s head. <br>The alleged who victim <a href="https://www.abc15.com/news/region-west-valley/buckeye/video-shows-former-buckeye-officer-accused-of-assaulting-two-people-in-handcuffs">told </a>investigators that Carrico hit her, was taken to the hospital and allegedly diagnosed with a contusion. She was also evaluated for a concussion, the court filing said.<br>The encounter began when Carrico arrested the woman for reckless driving after a traffic stop in Buckeye on November 1, 2025.<br>The alleged victim said the officer was hostile during the stop and made demeaning comments during a pat-down. <br>Body camera footage captured Carrico calling the pregnant woman &#8216;gross,&#8217; &#8216;nasty,&#8217; and &#8216;an a**.&#8217; <br>She&#8217;s also heard threatening that the woman&#8217;s attitude would determine whether she ends up in jail.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Carrico allegedly shoved the 21-year-old pregnant woman against a wall and dragged her to a bench. In the video she&#8217;s then seen swinging her arm toward the woman&#8217;s head</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Carrico resigned from the Buckeye Police Department earlier this month after a grand jury indicted her on two counts of aggravated assault on May 27. She pled not guilty.<br>The charges stem from the November incident, as well as a separate incident that occurred two months later.<br>Carrico allegedly punched a man in the head while he was being escorted by two police officers at a Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office facility in Phoenix on January 25.<br>The man was held on a domestic violence aggravated assault charge, before Carrico was tasked with transporting him from a hospital to the jail.<br>Surveillance footage showed how the man headbutted Carrico as he exited the patrol vehicle, which caused her to take him to the ground in the parking area.<br>But he told investigators, according to the indictment: &#8216;After I bumped her, she threw me to the ground.&#8217;<br>&#8216;She tore my shirt,&#8217; he added. &#8216;She punched me in the face when I was already restrained.&#8217; <br>Footage captured inside the facility, recorded Carrico allegedly punching the handcuffed man and verbally threatening to smash his head in.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In 2025, officer Carri Carrico [second left], was honored with a Hero Award from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving, [MADD], organization for her efforts to get drunk drivers off the roads </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Carrico was also charged in connection to a January incident in which she allegedly took a handcuffed male detainee to the ground after he headbutted her while exiting her patrol car</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Officer-Carri-Carrico-punches-a-man-being-escorted-by-officers-at-a-Sheriffs-Office-facility-in-Maricopa-County-Phoenix-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-499446" style="width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>She allegedly then punched the male detainee in the head while he was being escorted by two officers at a Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office facility </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>One count of aggravated assault stems from a separate incident that occurred when Carrico allegedly punched a man in the head while he was being escorted by two police officers at a Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office facility in Phoenix on January 25. has pled not guilty to the charges. By this time <strong>Carrico was </strong>with the Riv<strong>erside County Sheriff’s Office </strong></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8216;I will smash you so hard into this f****** wall you won&#8217;t see straight,&#8217; she said. &#8216;Do you understand me? Do you f****** understand?&#8217;<br>Carrico was placed on unpaid leave after the jury brought charges against her last month. She resigned from the force on June 4.<br>When asked during an internal investigation about the alleged assault of the pregnant woman, Carrico admitted that the &#8216;video looks really ugly.&#8217;<br>But she defended herself, telling investigators: &#8216;I will say I&#8217;ve never once in my life open-hand slapped or struck anybody. And in this moment, I just think the only thing that I did was revert to my training.&#8217;<br>Her supervising sergeant said Carrico&#8217;s actions were &#8216;very aggressive&#8217; and &#8216;definitely over the top and unnecessary,&#8217; according to internal review records obtained by ABC 15.<br>Similarly, when probed about her actions during the January incident, Carrico told investigators that she used a &#8216;distraction strike&#8217; on the man.<br>She claimed she learned the technique during her nearly 10-year stint at the Riverside County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<br>But a sergeant who reviewed the footage said that they did not see the man doing anything that would &#8216;provoke or elicit a response like that from the officer.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Carrico joined the Buckeye Police Dept as a patrol officer in 2022, after serving nearly 10 years with the Riverside County Sheriff&#8217;s Dept in California. She resigned from the BPD on June 4 this year</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Carrico joined the Buckeye Police Department as a patrol officer in 2023. <br>Last year, she was honored with a Hero Award from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) organization for her efforts to get drunk drivers off the roads.<br>She participated in 35 DUI investigations in 2024 and made 27 DUI arrests, the force said. This was more than any other patrol officer.<br>At the time of her award, the Buckeye Police Department praised her &#8216;exceptional dedication&#8217; to road safety and said there was &#8216;no doubt her actions have helped prevent crashes and protect innocent lives.&#8217;<br>Carrico also made an appearance on an episode of the reality TV show COPS in 2022 while she was still with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office in California.<br>In the episode, she stopped a vehicle with a broken headlight and found two occupants with outstanding warrants.<br>She found meth and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, which the pair admitted to having.<br>But Carrico, taking their cooperation into account, did not arrest them and instead issued them a citation.</p>

Veteran female Arizona cop resigns after she’s indicted on aggravated assault after bodycam recorded her shoving and slapping handcuffed nine months-pregnant woman after traffic stop
