SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (KOLO) - South Lake Tahoe Mayor Pro Tem Cody Bass has been arrested on charges of assault and trespassing.

According to court documents, Bass was arrested on Sept. 25.

The arresting deputy with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says that, just before midnight, he was called to Aleworx in Stateline on reports that Bass had pushed a bouncer as he was getting kicked out of a bar.

According to court documents, the two have a prior history, and Bass had been trespassed from the bar.

He told officers he was trying to make amends, but the bouncer told police Bass threatened to hit him on the head with a coffee cup. Surveillance video reportedly shows Bass as the aggressor, and that the bouncer had acted in self-defense when he kicked him in the legs.

Bass has a

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