A former Rome police officer was found guilty Tuesday of assaulting another man in a bar fight last year.

A former Rome police officer was found guilty Tuesday of assaulting another man in a bar fight last year.

Jeffrey Sanders, 29, was convicted of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, following a non-jury trial in front of Camden Town Justice Harold Closs Jr., Assistant District Attorney Steven Cox said.

Sanders, of Camden, was then sentenced to pay a fine and to a term of conditional discharge in order to get counseling, Cox said.

Sanders – who had been a patrolman since 2011 – resigned from the Rome Police Department in December following an altercation at the Grape & Grog bar in Camden on Nov. 28, 2013.

The confrontation began shortly before 1:30 a.m. when Sanders encountered a former girlfriend and her new boyfriend at the Taberg Street bar, Cox said.

But when an uninvolved man attempted to step in and prevent a fight, Sanders then head-butted that man in the face, Cox said. The victim was treated at Rome Memorial Hospital.

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