A Richmond County deputy was injured Sunday, Jan. 7 while escorting a customer from Dave & Busters sports bar.
Timothy Bailey, 30, was belligerent and intoxicated around 10 p.m. Sunday when special-duty investigator Terry Bale told him to leave. But Bailey wouldn’t budge and became aggressive inside the Augusta business, authorities said.
While being escorted out, Bailey allegedly started a physical altercation. He then scratched the officer’s face, neck and arms with his nails while being taken to the ground, an arrest warrant says.
Investigator Bale suffered lacerations to his left forearm, right wrist, all around his neck and the right side of his face, the warrant says.
Dave & Busters just opened last summer, and some local residents are reacting to the felony arrest at the sports bar in online comments.
“Dang, can we have at least one family setting to go to?” asked one resident. “Safe where parents can eat socialize while the teens have clean fun and we all go home safe.”
“That’s why you do put nice things in Richmond County especially so close to downtown,” said another.
Bailey was charged with felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer. He has a 2017 conviction for pointing and presenting a firearm at another. A domestic violence charge the same year was pled down to disorderly conduct.
Bailey remained in the Richmond County Detention Center on Monday night under a $9,000 bond.
