The board voted to accept an agreement with Pima County sheriff's Deputy Randall D. Nice, to voluntarily relinquish his peace officer certification.
Nice was fired from the department in March 2015 over the alleged aggravated assault of a suspect but later reinstated to work by the Pima County Merit Board, according to AZPOST records.
In January 2015, Nice booked a suspect into jail but was called back because the man couldn't be medically cleared. According to jail staff, the man sustained a head injury in the confrontation that led to his arrest and was vomiting. While Nice was walking the handcuffed man out of the jail to be taken to a hospital, the man complained of numbness in his right leg and fell to the ground, AZPOST records show.
Records state Nice dragged the man across the parking lot, causing the man to suffer cuts and scrapes, which required medical attention."
Nice was fired by the department in March 2015, and the incident was investigated by an outside agency, the Sierra Vista Police Department. Nice's aggravated assault case was presented to a Cochise County grand jury, which voted not to indict.
Nice appealed his firing to the Pima County Law Enforcement Merit System council, which decided to reinstate Nice in June 2015, saying the three months he was out of work would serve as a suspension, according to records.
Without a valid peace officer certification, Nice is no longer employable as a deputy.
