HPD officer pleads no contest to assault charges at nightclub
Honolulu police officer Danson Cappo pleaded no contest on Monday to charges related to an assault on his former girlfriend and a man at a nightclub.
Cappo entered pleas for second-degree theft, third-degree assault, misdemeanor abuse of a family or household member, and fourth-degree criminal property damage.
Cappo is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 18.
An Oahu grand jury indicted officer Danson Cappo on Jan. 29 for second-degree theft, two counts of third-degree assault, and fourth-degree criminal property damage. Second-degree theft is a class C felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.
According to prosecutors, Cappo was at a nightclub on March 15, 2014 when he choked a man until the man lost consciousness on the dance floor. The man had been dancing with Cappo’s ex-girlfriend. Cappo then took the 22-year-old woman into his car and threw her cell phone out of the vehicle, prosecutors said. He allegedly assaulted her that night.
In January, Cappo, a police officer for two years, had his police powers restricted, a Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman said.
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