An Ellwood City police officer was charged with assaulting a teenager inside a Sheetz store this summer, during a dispute over a lost phone, the Pennsylvania attorney general announced on Friday.

Robert Magnifico, an Ellwood City sergeant who retired after the incident, was charged with simple assault, official oppression, tampering with public records and unsworn falsification to authorities, the attorney general's office said.

According to prosecutors, the 19-year-old forgot his phone at the Fifth Street Sheetz on June 6 and was told he could come get it back. When he arrived, the attorney general's office said workers wouldn't give him the phone, even though he provided information, including the passcode.

Police were called, and when Magnifico arrived, prosecutors said he shove

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