Overview
- Surveillance and body camera video released this week show former Officer Carri Carrico pushing and swinging at a nine‑month‑pregnant, handcuffed woman during a Nov. 1, 2025 booking and later striking a handcuffed man at a Maricopa County intake facility on Jan. 25, 2026.
- A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Carrico on May 27, 2026 on two counts of aggravated assault, she pleaded not guilty at arraignment and is scheduled to stand trial in November 2026.
- Buckeye Police Department internal investigators and the department's defensive‑tactics expert concluded the force was unnecessary and inconsistent with training, and records show Carrico did not document the first use of force in her initial report.
- Carrico told investigators the video 'looks really ugly' while also saying she reverted to a 'distraction strike' technique learned at a previous agency, a claim reviewers said is not part of Buckeye training.
- The criminal case follows an outside Maricopa County Sheriff's Office review requested by Buckeye leadership, and the videos and internal records are now central evidence that could shape discipline, local trust in policing and the upcoming trial outcome.