Davis, 37, was arrested over the weekend in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch after police received reports of a fight underway outside a bagel shop there, Sergeant Ron Hanavan of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said.
"It was a verbal altercation that turned physical," Hanavan said. Davis was accused of punching the 50 year old man with whom he was quarreling.
A former US special forces officer, Davis grabbed worldwide headlines when he fatally shot two men in Lahore on January 27. Davis said the men were trying to rob him and that he had acted in self defense.
Davis was employed under a CIA contract in Pakistan at the time by Xe Services, the controversial private security company formerly known as Blackwater. He was acquitted of murder charges in March and allowed to leave Pakistan after a $2.3 million payment was made to the men's families.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the time that the US government did not pay the "blood money" but declined to say who did.
In the Colorado case, Davis was initially booked on suspicion of misdemeanor charges of assault and disorderly conduct, and was released after posting $1,750 bond.
But he was formally charged on Monday with second-degree assault, a felony, and misdemeanor disorderly conduct, after making his initial court appearance, according to the district attorney's office.
Casimir Spencer, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor, said a violent-crime allegation attached to the assault charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison if Davis is convicted.
Davis was scheduled to appear in court again on Tuesday in connection with the assault case.
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@Send to the Gas Chambers:
To think that this man would be roughed up in prison would be a long shot. He is a trained operative and would most likely tear the average person to pieces.
Nice joke.
Unlike Pakistan there is no blood money system in US, poor fellow.
You do have to realize what will befall him in American prison if he is convicted. Imagine what they do to pretty white boys. I am not making this up. I guess justice will get served.albeit via wrong end.
The murderer it seems needs to be seen as if Americas government is doing something, but as we know he got away with cold blooded murder. Nothing is ever going to happen to him by law for his murderous crimes. Pakistan should of made an example of him, but sadly Pakistan is led by traitors as we all are even here in the west.
Will Sharia be there to save him?
Well this proves how this person handles things if something does not come as he wants. He is a murderer. Even American Administration made Obama lie to give statement in raymonds favour to prove that he is a diplomate even he was not a diplomate and had no diplomatic ammunity. How American's Administration twist things.
If Pakistani authorities had continued to keep him detained some poor guy would have been spared from getting his face punched in.
hahaha too good