SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a Salt Lake City police officer has been charged with aggravated assault a second time for ordering a dog to attack someone who complied with officers’ orders. K9 Officer Nickolas Pearce was charged Tuesday with lifting up his K9 Tuco so the dog could bite a woman who was in a suspected stolen vehicle in 2019. Pearce was first charged with aggravated assault in September for ordering Tuco to attack a Black man who had put his hands in the air. His defense attorney says in both cases her client was following department policy.












