Metro officer strangled girlfriend, also a Las Vegas police officer, arrest report says

A Metropolitan Police Department officer strangled and slapped his live-in girlfriend, also a Metro police officer, after he put a gun to his head in front of her at their home, according to an arrest report.

The report said that Chandler Pike, 29, “did not like” that the woman would be home late for the Thanksgiving holiday after working a busy policing shift for Metro’s Enterprise Area Command.

Pike was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday.

The report noted that Pike’s girlfriend texted emergency operators at about 11 a.m. on Friday from a residence they shared.

The address of the home was redacted in the report. According to Metro’s online Open Data Portal, the police event number corresponding to the arrest showed that officers responded to a residence in the 7100 block of Sterling Rock Avenue, near West Cactus Avenue and South Rainbow Boulevard.

The woman told investigators that Pike said he planned to shoot himself “in front of her,” according to the report.

She reported that she was strangled and slapped, and was found to be bleeding from from both ears near her earrings. The victim also said that her neck was squeezed so hard that she “urinated on herself and lost consciousness for a brief moment,” the report said.

She had her hair pulled, according to the report, and a necklace ripped “off her neck.”

At one point, in the couple’s bedroom, she said Pike wrapped his legs “around her back and squeezed very hard,” which led her to scream for help, “hoping a neighbor would hear.”

The woman told police that she hid two Glock handguns in the home’s kitchen. Two children were in the home when police arrived, about 15 minutes after the woman texted, thought she told investigators they weren’t in the home during the alleged assault.

She told officers that Pike “drinks often” and that he did not point a gun at her at any time, the report said.

Pike was booked on the following charges: two counts of felony domestic violence, strangulation; one count each of felony coercion with threat of force, domestic violence; misdemeanor domestic battery; and coercion constituting domestic violence.

According to court records, Pike posted bond on Saturday and is due in court Dec. 29. Dominic Gentile, who is listed as Pike’s attorney in court records, had no comment when reached by phone Thursday.

Pike, who has been with Metro since 2020, was assigned to the Community Safety Division, Enterprise Area Command. He will be placed on suspension of police powers without pay pending further investigation, the department said.

Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath on X.