By Maria Armental
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A suspended Pawtucket police officer has been sentenced to anger management and 20 hours of community service in a domestic abuse case.
WJAR-TV reports that Officer Stephen Ricco pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct Wednesday in Providence District Court. He also was ordered to pay more than $90 in court costs. Simple assault and other disorderly conduct charges were dismissed.
The disorderly conduct conviction will be erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for a year.
Ricco was arrested in February. His ex-girlfriend told police she was pregnant with his child when he assaulted her for refusing to get an abortion. She also said Ricco told her to kill him with his service weapons.