YESTERDAY WAS a happy day for Kathy Pugh, who was dismissed from her civilian police-clerk job last year after she was arrested on charges in connection with a South Philly street fight.
A judge acquitted her of all charges after a nonjury trial.
Then, later in the day, Pugh, 53, learned that her co-defendant and boyfriend, Robert Reid Sr., 44, told a different judge that they would be getting married soon and going on a honeymoon.
“He said that?” Pugh responded to a Daily News reporter, looking happily surprised. She said she thought she and Reid were “eventually” getting married.
At Pugh’s trial before Common Pleas Judge Joan Brown, Pugh’s attorney, Fortunato “Fred” Perri Jr., argued that the three prosecution witnesses testified to different things. He also contended that the other side in the fight – the prosecution’s witnesses – were more armed than they admitted.