(WGNO) – A St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s deputy resigned Tuesday after a weekend arrest in New Orleans. Detective Sgt. Paul Miller was booked Sunday for domestic abuse battery, simple battery, battery of a police officers and public intimidation.
New Orleans police say Miller pushed his wife to the ground Saturday evening inside the JW Marriot Hotel on Canal Street. Then Miller slapped an Orleans Parish deputy who attempted to stop him.
St. Bernard Sheriff Jimmy Pohlman had suspended Miller after the arrest, and Miller resigned Tuesday while under internal investigation, said sheriff’s office said.
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