Former police chief gets probation in civil rights case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri police chief has been sentenced to five years of probation for striking a man who tried to drown his infant daughter in a pond. A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced 52-year-old Greg Hallgrimson, who was police chief in Greenwood. Hallgrimson pleaded guilty in August to violating the civil rights of Jonathon Zicarelli, who walked into the Greenwood Police Department in December 2018 and said he had just drowned his daughter in a pond. Hallgrimson and another officer rushed to the pond and pulled the unconscious child from the water. She was treated for severe hypothermia. Prosecutors alleged Hallgrimson returned to the station and threw Zicarelli to the ground and hit him. Zicarelli pleaded guilty in August to felony child abuse.