From [HERE] Disgraced Jacksonville police Sgt. Marc Garza has pleaded no contest to a felony charge that hebeat a handcuffed drug suspect with a police radio.

Monday's negotiated plea bargain called for a nine-month jail sentence, but it will align concurrently with thenine months Garza already is serving after being convicted of coaching a subordinate officer to write a bogus burglary report in August 2009. The initial setence started about two weeks ago on March 22.

Although that means no additional jail time for Garza, Monday's plea deal adds a two-year probation term and 100 hours of community service after Garza is released.

Garza was charged with beating drug suspect Somario Atkins, 25, in the head with a heavy, metal portable police radio after Atkins got into a scuffle with other officers in August 2009. Atkins already had been detained when Garza attacked him inside a squad car. 

Atkins was sitting handcuffed in the back of a police car when he was beaten in the head, causing a 2-inch laceration, Garza's arrest report said.