PANAMA CITY — A man involved in a waffle house brawl has pleaded no contest to charges related to battery on an officer, according to court records.
Corey Leeser, 34, was sentenced to four years of probation following an altercation with a Bay County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant at the Waffle House at 7000 Thomas Drive. He was initially arrested in March on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and depriving an officer of means to communicate.
Leeser was screaming at witnesses when the officer arrived. He then became physical when the officer began to escort him out of the restaurant. At one point, he pinned the officer against a wall in foyer, elbowed him in the side and tried to tear away the officer’s radio.
Leeser then ran from the foyer to be arrested by other BCSO officers nearby.