The former director of operations at the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office was charged with felony assault last week in Blue Lake after a dispute over an unleashed dog, according to a police report.
Tom Grady, 67, allegedly broke the jaw of the man with the unleashed dog, knocked him unconscious and caused him to receive several stitches above his eye, according to an Eagle County Sheriff’s Office report. Grady said the man and his dog acted aggressively, though the alleged victim denied that and said Grady sucker-punched him when he leaned down to leash his dog.
“(Grady) made the comment multiple times that he was a retired Pitkin County deputy and he knew what aggressive was,” according to the police report, which notes that Grady is 6-feet-6-inches tall and weighs 240 pounds. “He wasn’t going to let a guy come at him first.”
The alleged victim, David Clancy, 63, said he never came at Grady or acted aggressively.
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