A former Athens-Clarke County firefighter was recently indicted on a felony assault charge stemming from an incident last year at a downtown bar in which he allegedly knocked a University of Georgia student unconscious and fractured his jaw.
Michael Bradford Hale, 28, was charged with aggravated battery for the January 2013 assault at Bar South on East Washington Street, according to the indictment filed April 1 in Clarke County Superior Court.
At the time of the assault, Hale had been a firefighter with the Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Services Department.