Two Officers Arrested For Drunken Bar Brawl

Florida Fort Walton Beach  The Crestview police officers are also brothers. The brawl started after one of them grabbed a woman's crotch and was then told to leave the bar.
by WKRG Staff
Published: Thu, March 12, 2009 - 12:55 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, March 12, 2009 - 7:42 pm CST
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office arrested two Crestview police officers for a drunken bar brawl.

According to the offense report obtained by News 5, Officer Bryan Crawford grabbed a woman's crotch four times Wednesday night at The Swamp in Fort Walton Beach. When a security guard told Crawford to leave, Crawford took a swing at him. The security guard then got into a struggle with Crawford on the back deck. An off duty deputy jumped in to help out. During the struggle, the railing broke and they all fell onto the beach below.

Crawford started shouting "I'm a cop, I'm a cop!"

While the security guard and the deputy tried to handcuff Crawford, his brother Danny, who's also a Crestview police officer, came up and tried to yank him away.



Both of the Crawford's were arrested for resisting arrest, battery of an officer and disorderly intoxication.

While Bryan Crawford was being escorted to the patrol car, he said "So this is what it feels like in handcuffs".
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Suspended without pay? You’ve got to be kidding. It’s time for them to find another line of work.

they should be suspended without pay

i was watching the officer speak who lost his wife and daughter while he was chasing the idiot on a killing spree. when he said he would gladly take a bullet for the citizens of his community. that is a hero. most of our officers are not like these idiots. they should not be crucified just fired and treated like any other citizen.

oh of course not and im glad they were apprehended!........such behavior should never be condoned….my point perhaps badly made was that being drunk lowers the bar of behaviour to do what perhaps u would not have “normally” done. and being that they were both officers just raises the standard.

justanothergirl - Drunk or sober, do you want either one of those guys grabbing your crotch four times while you are doing whatever you are doing?

sad that officers would do that and they should deff. be punished, but if u are drunk u dont have all your mental capacity working…..im sure they both woke up totally and thoughly ashamed and embarressed.

Four times?

Don’t forget they are human too, If you got fired for evrything you did while you were away from work, how many people would be working? Give the guys a break.

These guys are a pitiful excuse for an officer.  It’s guys like this that gives all law enforcement a bad name.  There is no excuse for grabbing a woman like that.  And yelling “I’m a cop” should only have embarrassed the cop.

More apostrophe trouble: “Both of the Crawford’s” is wrong. The correct version should be “Both of the Crawfords.” Apostrophes only rarely indicate plurality, signifying the naming of a word, letter, or symbol as itself in plural.

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