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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A former Blackwater security guard who is charged in a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq has lost his certification to be a court bailiff.
Utah's Peace Officer Standards and Training Council revoked Donald W. Ball's credentials on Monday because of an alleged drunken altercation with a girlfriend last summer.
Ball has not been charged in the alleged fight. But the training board's bureau chief for investigations, Lt. Steve Winward, says it was enough for POST to revoke his bailiff's certification.
Ball left a police academy in December before earning full police credentials. Around the same time, he also resigned from his job as a bailiff for Salt Lake City Justice Court.
Winward says Ball's involvement in the Blackwater case didn't factor in the decision.
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