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“Peeping Tom Faces Assault Charge after Allegedly Punching Police Officer, Say Cops”

newsfinale.com 2024/10/6
Peeping tom charge with punching a police officer: Cops
Keevis Holland took upskirt photos of women at this Walmart and punched an officer who tried to detain him, cops say. (Mug shot: Dallas County; image of the store: Google)

A convicted peeping tom was allegedly at it again, and this time, he is accused to punching a cop who tried to detain him.

Jail records in Dallas County, Texas, show that Keevis Holland, 41, is locked up for charges including aggravated assault of peace officers, taking a weapon from an officer, and assault causing bodily injury.

Cops in the local city of Irving said that at 12:31 p.m. on Monday, they got called out to 4100 W Airport Fwy in Irving regarding an assist officer call. Police did not name the location, but this is a Walmart. It turned out that the officer needing help was one of their counterparts from Ore City. Off-duty but uniformed, he learned from security that Holland was taking photos up women’s skirts, police said.

The officer tried to detain Holland.

“As the officer placed a handcuff on the defendant’s left wrist, the defendant turned around and began striking the officer’s face and head repeatedly with closed fists,” police said in a statement obtained by Law&Crime. “Each time the defendant struck the officer, the loose handcuff also struck him, causing a laceration to the top of the officer’s scalp. The officer fell to the ground and dropped his department issued Taser. The defendant picked up the Taser and pointed it at the officer, which placed him in fear of serious bodily injury or death due to the potential of the defendant incapacitating him with the Taser and taking his firearm.”

Security cameras recorded the assault, police said.

As the officer gave chase, Holland fled out into the parking lot and escaped in a gray Dodge Ram, police said. Officers said they used the license plate number to determine it was registered to Holland.

The defendant was charged with similar peeping tom crimes before. He pleaded guilty in 2017 to taking phone video up the skirts of two separate women in March and April of that year, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate KXAS and Fox Dallas affiliate KDFW. He had reportedly been out on parole on a 20-year prison sentence for a 2002 guilty plea for aggravated robbery.

Circle back to 2024. Holland is in trouble again. Cops showed up to serve a warrant at his home, though it turned out he was not there.

“They had normal clothes on, but they had guns and, like, vests on and everything,” neighbor Omar Ayala told KDFW. “And they were yelling from the microphone saying ‘Come out, come out.’”

Holland ultimately turned himself in on Tuesday and is being held in a $152,000 bond.

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