UPDATED: King City cop Bobby Carrillo arrested again for allegedly beating up a teenager; DA to request bail increase.

UPDATE: No decision on the DA's requested bail increase on the latest development in this case, an additional charge for Bobby Carrillo of misdemeanor battery. He'll be back in court Friday morning to continue that item. 

What we do know: The alleged victim of the Oct. 2 fight, 19-year-old Francisco Ibarra, is a witness to the bigger felony case against Carrillo, pertaining to an alleged car-towing scheme targeting poor, marginalized drivers. 

"The victim in [the battery case] is a witness [in the towing felony case]," Deputy DA Steve Somers told Judge Russell Scott Wednesday morning.

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King City Police Officer Bobby Carrillo will be back in court Wednesday morning—this time facing charges that he allegedly beat up a 19-year-old man. 

Carrillo was arrested and booked in the Soledad Police station on Oct. 2, following a fistfight just before 5pm.

"It started off with a verbal argument, then escalated into a fistfight," Soledad Police Cmdr. Damon Wasson says. "As is typical with most fights, one guy's pointing the finger saying, 'He started it,' the other guy is pointing the finger saying, 'He started it.'" 

After taking statements and examining injuries, police recommended battery charges against Carrillo; the other man, Francisco Ibarra of King City, was not charged in the altercation.

Ibarra had scratches on his back and his neck, and evidence he'd been punched on his left eye, Wasson says, while Carrillo "might've had a small scratch on one thumb, maybe a red mark on his neck, that was about it."

Wasson says he doesn't know the nature of the argument, but is escalated quickly. "It just transfered from them screaming and yelling at each other to them rolling around on the ground," he says.

The fight took place in Carrillo's neighborhood in Soledad, though the police report doesn't specify an address, but it might've been in Carrillo's home. His wife overheard the fighting, and broke it up by telling them to stop.

Carrillo is scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of misdemeanor battery Wednesday morning, where Deputy District Attorney Steve Somers plans to ask for a bail increase. 

For Soledad police, the call was just like any other, Wasson says, despite Carrillo's profession. "We treated it just like a typical two-guys-on-the-street fighting," he says.

Carrillo was arrested in February along with five other police officers and one civilian. He was charged then with bribing an officer, accepting a bribe and conspiracy, in connection with an alleged towing scheme in which he targeted disadvantaged drivers, impounded their cars, and shipped the bulk of the towed vehicles to the KCPD chief's brother's towing business in exchange for kickbacks. 

A search warrant later unsealed shows evidence that Carrillo was allegedly involved in other misconduct: He reportedly falsified a police report on a domestic violence investigation; seized cash in a vehicle stop and returned it to the owners only when pressed; and gained remote access to the KCPD computer network from his home, all according to a search warrant. 

He is on disability leave, but remained employed by KCPD as of Aug. 28.