The Tucson Police Department's main building is located on Stone Avenue south of downtown.
The Pima County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday evening it is not filing charges against an off-duty Tucson Police Officer involved in an altercation at a local restaurant.
Chief Criminal Deputy Dan South said after an “extensive investigation” of the November incident involving Officer Robert Szelewski and three women in the Culinary Dropout parking lot that “based on discrepancies between what witnesses observed, as well as video evidence, there is not sufficient evidence to issue charges against Robert Szelewski.”
A fight between those involved broke out after words were exchanged between the parties in the restaurant parking lot. The investigation began after a video of the incident surfaced and showed the officer physically restraining two of the women.
The investigation determined that one of the women approached the officer in an “aggressive manner” which caused him to use restrain that woman. Another member of her party then became involved and was also restrained while a third recorded the incident on a camera phone.
“The facts do not support a substantial likelihood of conviction at trial. A jury could easily find that (the woman who first approached the off-duty officer) used a threat of force first by rushing towards Szelewski to start the fight,” South wrote in the report
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