A former Davenport police lieutenant who served the City of Davenport for more than four decades was arrested on New Year’s Eve during a party at a Bettendorf home.
66 year old Rickey Chase is charged with public intoxication and interference with official acts. Police were responding to an assault between neighbors, according to an arrest affidavit, which states officers observed Chase at the scene “staggering and tripping” and appearing to be intoxicated.
KWQC-TV 6 reports Chase was getting ready to get into the driver’s seat of a vehicle when officers warned him he would be arrested for operating while intoxicated if he started the engine.
After the warning, Chase stopped getting into the vehicle and his girlfriend tried several times to get him to leave the scene with her.
However, according to the affidavit, Chase then “became argumentative with officers” who told him several times to go back into the residence while warning him he would be charged with public intoxication if he did not comply.
Chase was arrested after continuing to argue with police and, while being placed in handcuffs, tried to “pull his arms free and would not willingly place them behind his back.”
According to the affidavit, officers had to pin Chase against a vehicle and pull on his arms to get them secured and he refused a breath test.
A Davenport Police Department spokesperson told KWQC-TV 6 Chase retired in 2019 as a lieutenant A Davenport Police Association Facebook post on August 30, 2019 indicates Chase retired on that day “after 43 years of service to the City of Davenport.”