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An Atlantic City police officer was tried over a gruesome police dog attack ten years ago avoided stern penalties forassault charges filed against him last year. Sterling Wheaten was charged last October 2022 in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with simple assault and harassment over the alleged altercation with his ex-girlfriend. At a hearing Monday, Wheaten, who has been an Atlantic City police officer since 2007, instead pleaded guilty to two “non-traffic, non-criminal tickets” for “making unreasonable noise,” his attorney, Paul Gregory Lang, told NJ Advance Media. He received no penalties or stipula…