A retired Murray police detective is facing an assault charge for allegedly striking a suspect during an arrest.
Luis Alberto Argueta-Salazar was charged in July with misdemeanor assault, but city prosecutors had kept the charging documents secret until last week.
Allegations became public in a motion filed in a separate case where Argueta-Salazar had been one of several law enforcement officers to testify about investigating a nurse who had been accused of multiple sexual assaults at Salt Lake County hospitals.
Prosecutors with the attorney general’s office asked ahead of that trial that the defense not be allowed to question Argueta-Salazar about his pending case.