An Alabama police captain is on administrative leave after he spent 24 hours in jail and is charged with strangling his girlfriend .

Kermit Thomas "Kip" Hart III, 57, serves as a captain in the Criminal Investigations Division of the Tuscaloosa Police Department, but he was the one behind bars on a domestic violence charge. According to court documents obtained by local news outlet AL.com, police responded to an unnamed woman's home after midnight on Sunday when she said that Hart allegedly strangled her . The woman, who reportedly fled to a neighbor's house wearing just a shirt and underwear, told police that she and Hart had been in a relationship since 2019.

According to police, the woman believed Hart was texting another woman and, while he was sleeping, she went through his phone.

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