2 fired in Holley beating case back on job, HPD chief says Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 9:08 p.m., Thursday, September 20, 2012 Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland confirmed Thursday that two of the seven police officers he fired for their roles in the videotaped beating of burglar Chad Holley are back on duty after regaining their jobs in the appeals process. McClelland said he still feels justified in firing senior police officer Lewis Childress and police officer Guadencio Saucedo in June 2010. Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, said McClelland's assignment of the officers to the property room is a way of punishing officers despite the successful appeals to a city arbitrator and state district court. [...] an independent arbitrator never heard the facts in the case but dismissed Childress' firing in an October 2010 ruling that found the city's legal department did not schedule an appeal hearing before the legal deadline. Saucedo, a military reservist who has been on active duty since he was fired, won his appeal before an independent arbitrator in December 2010.