A 10-year veteran trooper with the Georgia State Patrol and his wife were arrested Thursday night after a domestic violence incident, authorities said.
Cpl. Austin Arsenio Wynn, 34, and Sueprena Marie Wynn, 37, were charged with simple battery – family violence. They were both booked into the Columbia County Detention Center.
According to warrants, Harlem police were called to the couple’s home on Barret Street around 6 p.m. Thursday. They discovered that Mrs. Wynn struck her husband with a thrown wooden bowl, causing him to fall to the ground. As she was walking away, he then struck his wife open-handed in the back of the head, causing her to fall to the ground.
A Harlem Police report says the argument happened while Cpl. Wynn was on-duty but home for a meal break, and it was also captured on his dash-cam. He wasn’t going to be charged until his superiors called Harlem police and said the video they reviewed showed him assaulting his wife. The report says Mrs. Wynn’s three children were present in the home at the time of the incident.
Cpl. Austin Wynn is currently on administrative leave with the Georgia Department of Public Safety, according to a statement from the Georgia State Patrol. A Facebook page for Trooper Wynn shows he is a decorated Marine veteran.
Cpl. Wynn has been released on bond, but Mrs. Wynn remained there into Friday afternoon as she worked on meeting requirements of a $600 bond, authorities said.
(This story was written jointly with the help of WGAC’s Austin Rhodes.)
