Boston officer is arrested on assault charges Police called to wife’s apartment

Boston officer is arrested on assault charges
Police called to wife’s apartment

By Travis Andersen
Globe Staff / February 20, 2011

A Boston police officer was arrested early yesterday on charges of assaulting his wife at her apartment in Roxbury, the department said.

Boston police said in a statement that officers responded to the Intervale Street apartment just after 3:10 a.m., where the wife of Patrol Officer Dennis Morson, 36, said he had assaulted her and damaged property.

Police saw that the woman had been injured and damage was done to two doors in the apartment, authorities said. She declined medical treatment, according to the statement.

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