Police officer-in-training arrested

Waters served 3 tours and has PTSD. The woman he is in a relationship with went to court to try to get the charges dropped. The video on this article has a lot more information than the print report.

Police officer-in-training arrested for strangling woman
WCTI 12 News
Kyle Horan
Jan 02 2015
JACKSONVILLE, ONSLOW COUNTY -

NewsChannel12 talked with the victim in this case on Friday. She says she's not seriously injured and that Waters suffers from PTSD. Warrants state Waters does own a PTSD dog. The victim indicated she wanted the charges dropped. There's no word yet if that has happened.

A police officer-in-training, who is also a Marine Reservist, is arrested for allegedly strangling a woman in Jacksonville.

According to warrants, Cody Lloyd Waters, 26, is accused of strangling a woman with both of his hands, hitting the woman in her head and face, and then pushing her to the ground. It happened at an apartment on Western Boulevard in Jacksonville.

Waters is a Lance Corporal in Marine Corps Reserves and was training to be a police officer for Kinston Public Safety. According to Kinston Public Safety Director Bill Johnson, Waters had worked for the police department just one day before being arrested for felony assault.
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