After a two-day trial, a jury in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Thursday found a former Ohio University student guilty of assaulting a police officer in the course of being arrested for an uptown fight.

Within 30 days, according to the Athens County Prosecutor’s office, Judge L. Alan Goldsberry will sentence Aaron D. Harris, 23, for the offense, which is a fourth-degree felony.

Court records indicate that Athens Police arrested Harris June 13, 2009, for his involvement in a fight in front of Big Mamma’s Burritos on South Court Street. Police officers reported that they observed Harris “punching and kicking a man on the ground.”

When officers ordered him to stop, a criminal complaint alleged, Harris “refused to stop… and continued punching the man. He had to be physically pulled from the incident.”

Charges against him from that altercation initially included assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing official business. Authorities alleged that when police tried to arrest Harris, he pulled away from officer Ralph Harvey, and a second officer, Matthew Warren, tried to stop him.

Harris then, according to a criminal complaint, “headbutted and pushed” Warren, “causing him to fall into a plate-glass window, which resulted in cuts and abrasions to his right arm, shoulder and knees.”

Harris then allegedly struggled with the two officers, refusing to put his hands behind his back to be cuffed.

All charges stemming from the incident appear to have been dismissed out of Municipal Court, but in October, an Athens County grand jury returned an indictment against Harris for assault of a police officer.

Around the time of his arrest in June 2009, Harris was listed in OU’s online directory as a registered student, though he does not show up in the university’s online records now.

His address at the time was given in records both as 33 N. McKinley Ave. (the Riverpark Towers apartment complex) and a residence in Hamilton, Ohio, north of Cincinnati.

In March of this year, he was found guilty in Athens County Municipal Court of disorderly conduct, and fined $50. His address at that time was listed as 32 N. College St.

The sentence in that case had included another $50 in fines and a 30-day jail sentence, but these were suspended. Harris apparently did not comply with court-ordered requirements, however, because on March 29 the city prosecutor filed to impose the suspended sentence.

The second $50 was imposed, but the judge deferred imposing the jail time to give Harris a chance to perform 28 hours of community service instead.

On July 26, however, the court issued an arrest warrant for Harris for contempt of court, for failing to appear for a hearing. He has a hearing scheduled on this issue Sept. 3.

In April 2009, Athens Police executed a search warrant on the Riverpark Towers apartment Harris shared with another man, as part of an investigation of the alleged kidnapping/ rape of a woman. No charges appear to have resulted from that investigation, however.