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Almost two years after manhandling a 73-year-old woman with dementia, breaking her arm and celebrating the arrest with colleagues, former Loveland, Colo., police officer Austin Hopp is going to prison.
Hopp, who pleaded guilty to a second-degree assault charge in March, was sentenced on Thursday to five years behind bars, with three years of parole to follow. He faced up to eight years in prison.
During the hearing, Larimer County District Judge Michelle Brinegar called Hopp’s actions toward the victim, Karen Garner, “deliberate, deceitful and calculated,” according to the Denver Post.
“This case is not about a mistake,” Brinegar said, according to the paper. “This [is] about a young officer who used his position of power and authority to show off his toughness, disregarded any sense of humanity and showed an alarming deal of criminal thinking.”
