BATON ROUGE — Troy Lawrence Jr., a former Baton Rouge police officer implicated in previous complaints about the notorious Brave Cave, faces charges including battery of a dating partner by strangulation, simple battery, aggravated assault and simple criminal damage to property.
According to an arrest warrant Monday, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office was called to a home on Richardson Drive around 11 p.m. on Saturday for a reported domestic disturbance.
The victim’s brother told deputies Lawrence grabbed the woman by her neck and strangled her. Lawrence then threw her on the bed and repeatedly punched her in the face with a closed fist, according to the arrest warrant…